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Question Getting Airport Extreme Base Station USB HDD & Printer to work with Linux?
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Is there a way to get Linux to connect to a USB external hard disk and to use a USB printer connected to an Airport Extreme Base Station? The networking works fine, but accessing the USB hard disk and printer has been a challenge.

Any guidance or advice is appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
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Old 28-04-2008, 12:26 PM
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I've been wondering myself, and the guy in the Apple Center just told me that the disk needs to be formatted on a Mac before plugging into the Airport; one would assume that the disk needs to be formatted in HFS+.

I wasn't very confident in what he had to say, so I walked out without buying it because I want to do some more research as it needs to work on my Mac, UNIX boxes and a Vista laptop.

I am leaning toward a dedicated NAS box now though..
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Old 28-04-2008, 03:24 PM
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Maybe this thread gets you started with accessing the airdisk?

As for the printer, I'm pretty sure it's accessible as a CUPS device, and probably gets announced regularly. Just start CUPS on the Linux box, point the browser to "http://localhost:631" and wait for the printer to show up.

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Yeah explains how to do it; but after some research I'm sure ill just go for a WRT54G with a custom firmware, and a separate NAS.
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