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[sea_probe]

Uh, not for me. I have the original (fast ethernet) n model.
I do have the disk as HFS+ Journaled. I have it set up as "with accounts" if that makes any difference.
This is both after the OS X software update AND the firmware update to the base station.

[Jason Snell]

Try running Disk Utility on the drive as well. (By attaching to your Mac.)

We have verified on the Gigabit Ethernet model, though, not the Fast Ethernet model.

[jhmaughan]

Stayed up all night working on this eh? or were they just late posting it? ;)

[Pharao]

AFAIK you can attach a USB hub to a APE and attach several disks.
So 2 questions -
1) is it possible to setup a raid1?
2) if I have 2 disks attached is it possible to use disk1 for system1 and disk2 for system2 for backups via Time Mashine? I see no point why it shouldn't work.

[valsjo]

Hi, I got this to work but only if I select "With Airport Extreme Password" in Airport Utility under Disks/FileSharing tab.
It didn??t work if I selected "With accounts"
FYI: I have not the GigEthernet Airport Extreme......
/rob

[valsjo]

Hi, I got this to work but only if I selected "With Airport Extreme Password" in Airport Utility under Disks/FileSharing.
I didn't work using "With accounts"
/rob

[gforce70]

Does anyone know if it will work just as well if connected to a USB Hub?

Larry

[palane]

Great news! That was our original plan in waiting for Leopard to be released before buying a MacBook. The timing is good, too. My wife's relatively new MacBook has stopped being able to join the wireless network after she went on a business tirp. It must be some kind of problem with in her setup (or Leopard bug?) as my mother-in-law's MacBook connects just fine.
BB

[ck4jc]

Just goes to prove my theory that they pulled this feature because they wanted to sell Time Capsules. Allowing this before the Time Capsule release would have cut into Time Capsule sales. Now that Time Capsule has been released and sold (probably) thousands of units, they're giving the rest of us the feature.
Looks like good business . . . it would have been better had they not "leaked" the feature to begin with, but oh well.

[rastarman]

All of the above comments specify an Airport Extreme. Does that mean that those of us who bought a non-Apple wireless router (mine is the dirt cheap and fantastic Netgear WGR614) are out of luck, or will Time Machine work with these non-Apple routers as well?

[TAllenSr]

As one of the vocal complainers about the lack of this functionality in the face of TimeCapsule, let me be one of the first to say...
Thanks for finally doing the Right Thing, Apple!
Troy

[DisabledTrucker]

I can verify it works on the fast ethernet version as I was the first to report it as working last night, all I had to do was reboot after the software updates were installed, open Airport's software and let it do it's update and reboot it, then it showed up right away in Time Machine with all my drives that were previously formatted with HFS+. I'm not using the drives for Time Machine but, I did notice that I had absolutely no problem to get it working using Secure Shared Disks with AirPort Password.

[leicaman]

All this hand-wringing and moaning about evil Apple deliberately pushing their Time Capsule. As with most conspiracy theories, it was bunk.
Now I think I'll buy an Airport Extreme base station and have a wireless network!