![]() You can’t also stream content from the drive to other network devices like Apple TV, Roku, or other network media streamers as you would with other routers that provide USB storage. However, that’s as far as its storage goes, because you can’t do things like backing up your computer to the external drive with Time Machine. It’s important to note though that the router doesn’t support APFS, exFAT, OR NTFS-formatted drives – only those preformatted in FAT or HFS+. I discuss AirPort Utility, wide-area Bonjour, and other AirPort-related subjects fairly extensively in my book, Take Control of Your 802.11n AirPort Extreme Network.When you plug in the drive, you can share the data and storage space on it with your network. Wide-area Bonjour is ironically not yet widely supported it’s a way of publishing local networking information to a DNS server. Wide-area Bonjour configuration is now found in the same place that you modify the device’s Bonjour name. The Bonjour name is used to advertise the base station across the network and could be changed to something short and sweet or long and more technical. The descriptive name is used to identify the base station within AirPort Utility, but also to name its attached volumes. Formerly, you could set just one name that was used for both purposes. The most notable change starting with AirPort Utility 5.3 is the ability to set the Bonjour name of a base station separately from its descriptive name: choose the AirPort pane and in the Base Station or Time Capsule tab click Edit beneath the Name field. AirPort Utility makes it much simpler to roll back to earlier versions of base station firmware when you encounter troubles. It can also check automatically for updates to itself and firmware updates. The software is more neatly designed than its predecessor, AirPort Admin Utility, and reveals more configuration options even on older models.ĪirPort Utility can optionally install a software agent that runs in the background and monitors the network for the addition of USB drives connected to an AirPort Extreme Base Station or Time Capsule and for problems with base stations on the local network. AirPort Utility shipped as part of Leopard and comes with Time Capsule as well. The software first appeared with the 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station model released in February 2007, and the AirPort Express retail packaging was updated by mid-2007 to include it as well. It was initially posted, reappearing by Wednesday morning.) ![]() (The update was unavailable for several hours after AirPort Utility can configure any AirPort Extreme Base Station, AirPort Express Base Station, or Time Capsule. ![]() Up to now, you had to use an installer CD from supported hardware to obtain AirPort Utility, or install Leopard. This is the first time that Tiger and Windows users can simply download the utility and install it.
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