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1. ACCESS EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE FROM LINKSYS FOR MAC USERS MANUAL
2. ACCESS EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE FROM LINKSYS FOR MAC USERS PASSWORD

I’ve checked in the router management settings and everything is enabled.

The NAS had no problem seeing it and writing and reading, and so forth. I also have a NAS (QNAP) running, and have connected the Seagate to it before. On the Sharing Settings part, make sure Network Neighborhood is ticked, and enter a Network/Media Server Name as you like, such as MyShare, then click Save. No mentions of compatibility issues, providing the drive is formatted correctly, which this one is. You can customize the server name and use the name to access your USB disk. Is it me, the drive, the router, the macs? I’ve checked sites for each company/product, they all list the same basic setup procedure. And so I click OK, and the little window shakes back and forth quickly a few times, as if to say, “guess again.” Its name is “sda1.” This is not the name I assigned it after formatting, but I have to assume it's meaning the Seagate volume. And every time, it takes me to a new window, which says “Select the volumes you want to mount on ’.xx.”:Īnd in the window list of volumes to choose from, there is only one.

ACCESS EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE FROM LINKSYS FOR MAC USERS PASSWORD

maybe it’s asking me to create one? Or, since it’s the LAN IP, maybe I should enter the administrator password for my router’s management page? I’ve tried all of these, and more. But it’s asking for the name and password for the server. Seeing my home folder name, I start thinking it wants my administrator password for my computer.

Registered User is already ticked, and in the name window, the name of the home folder of whichever mac I'm trying to connect on has been placed. It then prompts me for my “name and password for the server ‘.xx.’ “ Options to connect as Guest or Registered User.

ACCESS EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE FROM LINKSYS FOR MAC USERS MANUAL

I tried Connect to Server, and when asked for Server Address, entered my router’s LAN IP, per router user manual instructions for mounting external USB drive. Nothing showed up, but I guess I didn’t expect anything to. Then I tried connecting the Seagate to the router (USB3), with the Mac mini -> router connection remaining as it was (Cat6 ethernet). My mbp saw it as a mounted volume with the mini, which appeared in Finder sidebar under Shared. I'd like to make this as easy and painless as possible.Playing around with configuring home network, learning a lot, I wanted to see if there was a performance difference when reordering the connections between computer, router and a shared external hard drive (Seagate Expansion 5TB, formatted on mac, HFS+).įirst I went with the Seagate directly into the Mac mini (USB3), with the mini going out to the router (Cat6). Is this convoluted? Is there an easy (and cheap) way to do this?īasically, my wife and I are going to share the one big Library and then connect each of our iPods to it. The problem is that the router is all Ethernet, but I figured I could just go out and buy an Ethernet -> USB adapter and plug it into one of the unused Ethernet ports on the router. It's USB 2.0-based, so I was thinking of connecting it to the wireless network I run at home (simple basic Linksys WRT54G). I don't want to schlep the hard drive with me every where I go. Here's my question - what's the best and cheapest way to make this new huge library accessible to my laptops? I just spent most of this last weekend emptying out the iTunes libraries from my work laptop and home laptop in order to create One Big Library to Rule Them All. Last week, I went out and bought a Black Armor 320 GB external hard drive.