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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
Even on the Mac you have to buy a compatible Air Port router or what have you. Same technology, really...only one PC (or mac) can access a USB device at once, unless you have some sort of server to sort out the access, or switch to change which is accessing.
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Are you sure about that for Mac? I don't remember us having any problems accessing the same drive from more than one Mac at a time through the AirPort Extreme.
It works similarly to Apple Talk, or Sharing (whatever it's called), where you can use any Mac to log in to another to access their hard drive. More than one Mac can do it to another simultaneously. This is how we were doing it at first; we were using one of the Macs as our "server"; it was basically where we kept all of our shared files.
When we switched to the AirPort Extreme, we have been able to log in to it instead to access the same external hard drive. We have only had it this way for a week, but I haven't heard anyone complain that they couldn't get into the hard drive because someone else was already logged in. I'm pretty sure at least two people have been logged in at the same time. Mac does this by "mounting" the drive virtually on the desktop.
My feeling is that there must be something similar that Windows can do. Especially Vista; surely Microsoft knows what OS X is capable of and tries to emulate it somehow....
