How to access shared drive connected to Airport Extreme router?

Question

I have an external hard drive connected to my Airport Extreme. I keep my photo and music files on it and can access them from both a Mac and a Windows XP machine.

For some reason I can't find, much less connect to, it on my Ubuntu 10.10 machine. I can see my router in the "network" folder but can't seem to find and connect to the shared drive.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am somewhat of a novice with Ubuntu and networking.

Thanks

Solution

I'm fairly sure it has something to do with permissions. For me, the solution was to open AirPort Utility on my Mac, go to Disks->File Sharing, and set "AirPort Disks Guest Access" to "Read and write". Once I did that, the drives connected to my AirPort Extreme showed up in the Network browser from Ubuntu.

Comments

[jrg]

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[Kajal Sinha]

This question makes sense, I am a linux user and cannot connect to airport extreme attached hdd. Please reopen it.