Chapter . Set Up a Shared USB Disk
Extreme N adds an interesting option for sharing disks across a network without attaching them to a computer. The base station can share attached drives over a network both via the standard Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) format, the same format used with Personal File Sharing and Mac OS X Server share files, and via Samba, a network file-sharing service compatible with Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.
Warning!
There’s no way to share volumes via either only AFP or only Samba; you have to share through both.
You can connect a single drive to the USB port on the Extreme N, or connect a USB hub and then a series of drives to the hub. The drives may be hard drives or USB thumb (flash) drives, but you cannot use CD/DVD drives ...
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