Re: NAS and sharing...

Nige Danton wrote:
Two macs (MB and Powerbook), both running Leopard, router, Airport
Express wireless base station plus other AE's for wireless music.
Neither of the macs are always on. The office is wired with ethernet
and elsewhere in the house the net is accessed wirelessly. I need to
add an external drive to centralise all of the music that is scattered
across various usb external drives and for other shared data and I'd
like all of the files on that drive to be accessible from either mac
at any time.

But I think I've become muddled on the best way to achieve this.

I was thinking of adding a large mirrored raid - something like the
Lacie Quadra - and plugging it into the router (there's a spare
ethernet port there) but then the drive would only be accessible on
the wired network and not wirelessly - that's right isn't it?

The AE's don't support external drives - so to have the Lacie
accessible by both the wired and wireless networks - I need to change
the AE base station for an Airport Extreme and plug the Lacie into
that - I think, is that right? - but then would the drive be available
on the wired network?

Alternatively, I was thinking I could add a mac mini to the wired
network and leave it always on. The files on that machine could then
be shared. As a back up for the mini I suppose I could add an external
usb drive and have Time Machine do it's thing. I think that would work
ok - yes? - but it feels like a slightly unnecessarily expensive
solution.

What's the best way to achieve this? May thanks for any input and
help.

--
NIge Danton

I have a 500gb drive hooked on to my Airport Extreme. It's available to all machines either wirless or wired (OSX or Windoze)

--
Clive

We don't die, we just stop paying taxes.
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