Comments on: palmsolo’s still here and summary of mobile happenings http://www.palmsolo.com/2007/10/29/palmsolos-still-here-and-summary-of-mobile-happenings/ Mobile devices, politics, and life with my ladies Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:13:26 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: palmsolo http://www.palmsolo.com/2007/10/29/palmsolos-still-here-and-summary-of-mobile-happenings/comment-page-1/#comment-56537 palmsolo Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:25:40 +0000 http://www.palmsolo.com/2007/10/29/palmsolos-still-here-and-summary-of-mobile-happenings/#comment-56537 Robert, You may want to check out the details of Leopard as this update may have what you are looking for. I updated my MBP and know that it sees the other PCs on my network like Tiger never did. I have just been backing up to a hard drive via USB, but may try the network backup idea since I have PCs with larger drives and it would make it a more seamless process. I'll have to check out Time Machine to see if that will do it for me. Robert,

You may want to check out the details of Leopard as this update may have what you are looking for. I updated my MBP and know that it sees the other PCs on my network like Tiger never did. I have just been backing up to a hard drive via USB, but may try the network backup idea since I have PCs with larger drives and it would make it a more seamless process.

I’ll have to check out Time Machine to see if that will do it for me.

]]> By: Robert http://www.palmsolo.com/2007/10/29/palmsolos-still-here-and-summary-of-mobile-happenings/comment-page-1/#comment-55781 Robert Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:08:22 +0000 http://www.palmsolo.com/2007/10/29/palmsolos-still-here-and-summary-of-mobile-happenings/#comment-55781 I still visit here regularly and glad you updated. Your hard disk crash has emphasized the need for backup even of nearly new hardware. I also have a Mac Book Pro (new in April). I have been trying for about a month now to set up a 500 GB external drive as the main backup / storage drive. I bought a new Airport Extreme and connected to the USB drive. At first it couldn't be seen by MB Pro. An hour or so with Apple Care support couldn't get it to work. Then someone on Howard Forums suggested plugging it in directly first, then moving to Airport Extreme. Shazam, it worked. I then purchased MacDrive from Mediafour to write to it with my windows machines. No Luck. Though it my Win XP machine sees the drive, Windows is reporting (via Properties) that the drive is a FAT32 Drive (not the HFS+ drive that it is). Any idea how to install a drive on a network that can be written to by both Macs and PCs? I feel like I am so close, but no cigar. I still visit here regularly and glad you updated.

Your hard disk crash has emphasized the need for backup even of nearly new hardware. I also have a Mac Book Pro (new in April).

I have been trying for about a month now to set up a 500 GB external drive as the main backup / storage drive. I bought a new Airport Extreme and connected to the USB drive. At first it couldn’t be seen by MB Pro. An hour or so with Apple Care support couldn’t get it to work. Then someone on Howard Forums suggested plugging it in directly first, then moving to Airport Extreme. Shazam, it worked.

I then purchased MacDrive from Mediafour to write to it with my windows machines. No Luck. Though it my Win XP machine sees the drive, Windows is reporting (via Properties) that the drive is a FAT32 Drive (not the HFS+ drive that it is).

Any idea how to install a drive on a network that can be written to by both Macs and PCs?

I feel like I am so close, but no cigar.

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