Chapter 18. Set Up a Shared USB Disk

The AirPort Extreme N and the Time Capsule both add an interesting option to your network: they can share disks across a network without those disks being attached to a computer. Both models can accept one or more external drives plugged in via USB or via a USB hub; the Time Capsule also includes a non-removable internal drive.

Either model can share drives over a network with both the standard Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) format, the same format used with Personal File Sharing and Mac OS X Server share files, and Samba, a network file-sharing service compatible with Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.