Reader Art Hall would like to take advantage of the USB port on his AirPort Extreme Base Station. He writes:

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I connected my external drive to the Airport Extreme Base Station with a USB cable. What do I then do to be able to use it on my home network?

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A single AirPort Extreme, while a capable small office wireless router, can't always cover a SOHO environment's entire footprint.Fortunately, Apple has made it easy to extend a single AirPort. Connecting Apple AirPort Extreme Router to Windows B. Setup Internal Wi-Fi network with Apple AirPort Extreme Router Make sure you have a LAN cable connected from the HKBN wall plate/ONT to the WAN port of your Apple AirPort Extreme router. Using a second LAN cable, connect it from the Router LAN port to the computer LAN port.

This is easy to do. First, be sure that the drive is formatted as a Mac OS Extended volume (you do this in Disk Utility). Plug the drive into the AirPort Extreme Base Station’s USB port and launch AirPort Utility (which you’ll find in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder at the root level of your startup drive).

Select the Base Station within the AirPort Utility window and click the Manual Setup button. In the window that appears, you’ll see a Disks tab. Click that and you should see the name of the disk connected to the Base Station. (If you’ve plugged a USB hub into the Base Station and attached multiple hard drives to it, you’ll see all the devices plugged into that hub.)

In that same window, click the File Sharing tab. This is where you make the disk(s) tethered to the Base Station available to your Macs as well as determine which password will be used to access them (options include each account’s password, a disk password you create, or the password required to edit the Base Station’s settings). Additionally, you can configure guest access from a pop-up menu (Not Allowed, Read Only, and Read and Write), enable WAN access, and configure the disk(s) for Windows File Sharing. Tweak this window as you like and click the Update button to save the settings. The Base Station will be updated and you’re done with AirPort Utility.

To use the disk(s) from one of your Macs, open any Finder window and under the Shared heading in the sidebar you’ll see the name of your Base Station. Select it, click Connect As, enter the password you set in the File Sharing tab, and click Connect. Any drives attached to the Base Station will appear in the window. To mount one, just double-click it. Its contents will appear in a window and its icon will materialize on the Desktop. (You can also get to the disk by pressing Shift-Command-K to produce the Network window and double-click on your Base Station entry within this window.)

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Disks attached to an AirPort Extreme Base Station can now be used with Time Machine (in the early days of Time Machine and Extreme Base Stations they couldn’t). Nice to have the feature, but backing up this way isn’t speedy.

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I have an airport extreme and I believe I've followed the Plex instructions to make it accessible to the iOS plex client:
1. Determined Mac address for Macbook Pro
2. Click + under 'Network' under the Airport Extreme and added the Mac address and the static local address of my Mac
3. Under Port settings I set up all the Public and Private ports to 32400, private IP address to my MBP's static local address
When I put my router's static address into the Plex client on the iPhone along with the 32400 port it can't find or connect to it.
Ideas?
It all works fine if the iPhone is on the same local wireless network as the Plex server.