How you access an Airport Extreme USB Hard Drive on a networked device
I recently bought an Apple Airport Extreme with the sole intention of attaching a 1TB USB drive to it and streaming video direct (via network cables) to my networked BDP without any need to have a computer switched on.
I'll assume you already have a working shared drive on your Airport extreme that other computers on the network can access. (* if not, then I've put a quick guide on how to share your drive at the end).
i) You'll need to know your Airport Extreme disk username and password. This isn't your WiFi WPA key - you need the password you use to gain access to the disk on your Airport extreme, it is set in the Airport Utility program. I've set my disk password to be the same as the Airport extreme password. So in my case it's
User Name: myairport Password: pass123
ii) Very important.....Your Hard Drive needs to have a name with No Spaces in it - mine is called buffalo1tb
iii) Get your Airport Extreme's IP address. If you don't know what it is, go into the Airport Utility program and write it down. The IP is address shown on the right panel - mine is 10.0.1.1
You now have all the information you need to set it up.
On your BluRay Player go to:
Setup --> Network Share
Click '+' rather than 'browse' & enter the information you have collected, in my case it's
URL smb://10.0.1.1/buffalo1tb User Name myairport Password pass123
SAVE
Go to Home --> Media Source and your drive should show up there.
