Apple updates Time Capsule and Airport Extreme with internet sharing

What about this solution for disc sharing over internet ?!!!!

Does it work ?

http://guides.macrumors.com/Using_Remote_File_Access_to_Save_Disk_Space_on_Your_MacBook_Air#If_You_Have_a_Time_Capsule_or_an_AirPort_Extreme_Base_Station_with_Shared_USB_Hard_Drive

I have installed the firmware 7.4.1. When I am on a foreign network
(also an airport extreme), I can see my see my Airport extreme back home in the finder. I click to connect, but after a while I get the message that I can´t connect. When I "click connect as" I can´t enter any login information. What is wrong?

Just had Airport Utility fire up automatically and offer to upload the new firmware. So if you don't have automatic update checks set in the utility, you might want to use the "Check for updates" menu command now. The MobileMe setup tab is found in the "Advanced" section.

Created a ruby script to check for a new firmware every hour and spit out a growl/twitter notification when firmware hits:


#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'osx/cocoa'
require 'growl'
require 'xmlsimple'
require 'net/http'
require 'twitter'

twitUid = ''
twitPass = ''

@GROWL = Growl::Notifier.sharedInstance
@GROWL.register( 'firmware-notifier', ['fw-n-update', 'fw-n-issue'])

file_url = "/Applications/Utilities/AirPort%20Utility.app/Contents/Resources/AirPortUtility.icns"

icon = OSX::NSURL.alloc.initWithString("file:///Applications/Utilities/AirPort%20Utility.app/Contents/Resources/AirPortUtility.icns")
i = OSX::NSImage.alloc.initWithContentsOfURL(icon)

loop do
url = "http://apsu.apple.com/version.xml"
data = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url)).body
xml_data = XmlSimple.xml_in(data)

current_firmware = xml_data['dict'][0]['array'][0]['dict'][0]['string'][2]

if (current_firmware == "7.4.1")
puts "Zomg New Firmware!!!"
@GROWL.notify('fw-n-update', "Firmware Notifier", current_firmware + " Available!", :icon => i)
twit = Twitter::Base.new(twitUid, twitPass).update("New AirPort firmware available! (" + current_firmware + ") Woot!")
exit
else
puts "Nothing New"
end
sleep 3600
end

Obviously you have to add your twitter info!

I am still new to ruby so if you have any suggestions ... suggest away! :D

So, by 'accessing files over the internet' does that include write access to the drive? It's pretty cool to be able to access files on my home machine (assuming my computer can be asleep at the time?) but if I can then write back to that drive, that would be very cool.

Do the previous generations support the guest network? Or is that a function of the dual band hardware?

Cool - I hope its faster than iDisk

I can't wait for this firmware. I've been beta testing pogoplug and this new feature that allows me to access the drive connected to my AE may kill it for me.

it looks like http://nmancer.net/?p=4067 is publishing the same column as yours, word perfect

@Darren

You're right, I don't find the 7.4.1 firmware update neither on Apple website or after updating the Airport Utility to the latest version...perhaps we have to wait a little bit before enjoying this new feature ;-)