Comments on: The Airport Disk Debacle.

By: Ryan G

Ryan G — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:15:29 +0000

I had the exact same issues when I bought my airport. THe solution I found (somewhere in apple forums) worked great and everything now works as expected.

1. Turn of IPV6 in the network settings of your computer
2. Turn off IPV6 within the airport settings

I think thats wabout it. I may have enabled guest access as well. Now everything works as expected.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:17:16 +0000

Had a lot of trouble with Airport Disk myself. After a lot of restarting, resetting, and searching far and wide, I found these fix(es). Though I can’t quite remember where I found them , the following items have kept me happy.

1. Enable Guest Access, read only
2. Most important=remember to eject the mounted volume before putting your Mac to sleep or shutting down.

Number 2 was definitely the culprit, since I have not had any issue now that I remember to unmount. Hope it helps?!

By: Rener

Rener — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:33:59 +0000

I have an original 802.11n Airport Extreme (the one prior to gigabit ethernet) with a 500gb hard drive connected via USB.

I formatted the HD with Disk Utility and then set it up via the Airport Utility. The password is kept in my keychain and, thus far (knock wood), Leopard finds it just fine. It pops up in my sidebar and if I click on it, it mounts on my desktop.

(The only problem I have is that when the HD is connected to the Airport, it’s “on” (with fan) constantly, even when ejected from Finder. I have to unplug it from Airport to get it to actually sleep).

By: Josh Pyles

Josh Pyles — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:59:07 +0000

The same happens to me all the time. I’ve completely given up on the feature now. It worked fine Pre-leopard, and even when I hadn’t yet upgraded my firmware to the latest release, but lately it just won’t work at all.

I really hope they fix this.

By: Darryl

Darryl — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:37:53 +0000

I’ve encountered the same with a LaCiE 500GB HFS+ drive. I appreciate the effort on Apple’s part but something more reliable would definitely be nice. My MBP is the only Mac in the house and I agree that being able to use that network disk from anywhere in the house instead of using all of my local disk for music would be great. Has anyone had any more reliable experience with using a Mac Mini as a file server? Let’s hope that Apple addresses this during their next firmware update.