Home File Sharing via Flash Drive
Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive all move our family data into the Cloud — and I’d like to not worry about that. Sync solutions mean new software, but perhaps only on one machine.
I’m going to stick our unused $20 SanDisk Ultra Fit 64GB flash drive in back of the Airport Extreme.
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This Apple article partly explains what is supposed to happen. From Airport Utility we can create username/password “accounts”. Say “Parent” and “Kids”. When a client connects you are asked username/password, that gives access to the Folder of the same name as well as a “Shared” folder. So Emily and I connect as “Parents” and see the “Parents” and “Shared” folder, but we don’t see a “Kids” folder unless we connect with that username password.
There’s no way for me to connect with to the AE shared disk (partitions?) and see everything.
It’s so nice to be able to use USB flash drives and SD cards for smaller backups and shared volumes. They’re compact, and there are no cables or power supplies to worry about.
