Accessing TIme Capsule via the Internet

Hi,
I would like to set up my TC so that I can access it wherever there is a connection. According to Apple's website I can just register with my MobileMe account. So far I can't seem to find that part, much less is there a step-by-step documentation guide.
Would appreciate if anyone has successfully done this.
Thanks!

According to Apple's website I can just register with my MobileMe account. So far I can't seem to find that part, much less is there a step-by-step documentation guide.
I suggest starting with Apple's Back to My Mac User's Guide

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Best way to access Time Capsule from the Internet?

I wanted to see if anyone knew of a program or setting I can use in order to access Time Capsule from the internet? I know that probably I will not be able to at this point access it directly, even though it is connected to the internet through my modem, but I do have a Mac at home that is connected to Time Capsule. Isn't their a way that I could connect to the Mac, but not through Back to My Mac, that would show Time Capsule as connected to it, so that way I could access the files? Any ideas would be appreciated.

It is possible to mount the TC as a network hard drive when outside your regular network.
1) You will need to reconfigure your router to forward the ports used for AFP (by default 548) to the Time Capsule.
2) Then when outside the network make sure Finder is active, press Apple+K to bring up the 'Connect To Server' dialog.
3) Input the WAN IP address of the network to which the TC resides on.
4) You will be asked for the password used to access TC.
5) The TC should appear as a mounted drive.
It is then possible to access files on the TC as well as do a TM backup. To make life easier you can drag the mounted TC into your dock for easier access in the future.
However, it is obviously recommended to use a strong password to protect the TC (configurable using Airport Utility in the 'Disks/File Sharing' tab). You may also need to use a service like DynDNS if your network does not use a static IP address.
But I am using my home networks' Time Capsule successfully from the office.

Access Time Capsule over the internet

Hey guys! I have a problem. I cannot access my Time Capsule over the internet.
I have a Time Capsule 2013 which connects to the internet using a PPPoE connection and which provides wireless connection to other peripherals in my house.
The TC is running the latest firmware and I've added my iCloud account in AirPort Utility settings, in order to access the TC over the internet, via Back to My Mac.
Whenever I'm away from home, I cannot access the TC.
I see it in Finder's sidebar, but whenever I press the "Connect As.." button I get the following error:
"There was a problem connecting to the server “Time Capsule”.
The server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try again."
I must add that I have a dynamic IP. Whenever the Time Capsule restarts, it gets a different IP.
Am I missing something?
Please help me. It's really important for me to be able to reach it when I'm away from home.

So the modem is bridged and the TC is doing the PPPoE authentication.. and it gets a public IP on the WAN interface.
The dynamic nature of the IP is not a problem with the BTMM and iCloud type system which should keep the intermediate connection in the cloud up to date.
What about the connection at the other side.. are you getting a public IP.. are you behind a firewall or restricted access? Remember both sides of this have to work.
See this thread.. you are not alone.. all is not sweetness and light unless you get a proper business account with static IP.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3699096?start=0&tstart=0
Apple info has a bit about issues that people experience.. and Tesserax has some setup info.
Remote Access
I would use the public IP and see if it works.. that means you need to check the IP before you leave home or use your phone tether and do the test at home so you can type in the public ip and use direct access .. at least to test it.

I don't have a DSL or cable modem to access the Internet ... just a mobile WiFi (there is no cable available at our house). How do I connect my Time Capsule to the Internet via the mobile WiFi?

I don't have a DSL or cable modem to access the Internet ... just a mobile WiFi (there is no cable available at our house and the mobile WiFi is our only option). How do I connect my Time Capsule to the Internet via the mobile WiFi?

LOL!!
I am in Australia and the ISP... I think both the main ones would fit your description to a T.. big T in particular.
Your router is really unsuitable.. if it is only wireless and no ethernet.. just buy an ethernet one.
Do a search on ebay.. 3g router.
But you can get the TC to join a wireless network.
It is a non-standard setup that Apple will not support.. the option is hidden.
If you are on Lion download the 5.6 utility. Go to the wireless set up page and hold down the option key whilst selecting wireless mode.. a new option, join will appear. You can then put in the ssid and passkey of the 3g router.
But please note the end result of this setup..
very slow speed. The TC is now a second wireless hop from your clients.. this will halve the speed.
In this mode the ethernet are deactived.. for reasons only Apple know, they decided you should not use ethernet when doing this.

How do I access my time capsule over the internet

How do I access my time capsule over the internet. I've already set it up to share over WAN, but I have ATT so my TC is connected to the router provided by ATT can I still access my TC via the internet even though its not directly connected to the Ethernet?

The TC should be in bridge mode.. not setup to share over wan.. that will never work. That is assuming you haven't bridged the ATT router.
Once you bridge the TC see if you can setup BTMM using icloud settings in the TC. As per the Apple docos.. here.
You should also be able to directly access the TC since you have a router with dyndns client at a guess.. the setup is simply forward port 548 to the TC.
Google search this.. there is huge number of resources available. eg
http://useranswer.com/answer/how-can-i-access-my-time-capsule-remotely-with-iclo ud/

Can I access the data on the time capsule from the Internet?

Can I access the data on the time capsule from the Internet?

You need to follow the BTMM via icloud instructions.
http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/back-to-my-mac/
There are plenty of other ways to do it.. but issues to do with Apple not using a dynamic DNS client so if your ISP does not allocate you a static public IP there is no way to find it, if the public ip rotates as they are designed to do hourly or daily.
Do a google search, remote access time capsule..
Or use the more like this on the right hand side... there are plenty of posts and even youtube video which go right through it.
BTW your school system may simply block the port.. if I was a school IT admin.. I would. You are dragging files across to the internal school network bypassing the firewall.. that is unacceptable risk to the whole school system.

Accessing Time Capsule From Any Internet Connection

Could you please tell me if it will be possible to access Time Capsule from any internet. I would like to put all my files on the device and be able to access these while out on the road.
Thanks in advance for your help
Cheers Steve

Yes, you certainly can (right now) remotely access the hard drive attached to your AEBSn. I will refer you to "Step 4" in Apple's article Sharing a USB hard disk on your network for instructions on enabling this feature. To access the disk remotely (and don't test this from a computer on your own LAN) select "Connect to Server" from the Finder's "Go" menu, and enter the public IP address of your Base Station.
I have to admit the specs for Time Capsule don't explicitly indicate that Time Capsule will support this feature. However, given this feature is available on the AEBSn and is easy to implement, I would be very surprised if Apple took away this feature when they designed Time Capsule.

Can i acess Time capsule over the internet?

Can i acess Time capsule over the internet?
If i am away can i acess time capsule true the internet???

Click here and follow the instructions. If the Time Capsule is acting as the router, skip the port forwarding instructions.
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Accessing Time Capsule on the same LAN ?

I've placed my Time Capsule on the same LAN as my other systems (a switch) -- I cannot access the TC on the same LAN, only if I plug my Mac in the switch ports behind it.
How can I reconfigure the TC to allow connections to it on the external LAN? In front of it is a firewall, and I don't want and double NAT configuration.
Thanks.

You just need to reconfigure the TC as a bridge. (ref: AirPort Utility > Manual Setup > Internet > Internet Connection > Connection Sharing = Off (Bridge Mode))

Can I access my Time Capsule over the Internet?

I want to know if it is possible to access my time capsule Hard Disk over the internet, How do I do it?

"Launch AirPort Utility and select "Manual Setup". Click on the "Disks" icon in the title bar, then on the "File Sharing" tab. That's where you set your Time Capsule to share as you want."
OK, checked that last night at home.
I'm at the hotel now with a good internet connection via ethernet.
What do I do now? Please provide step by step rather than a general statement.

Access time capsule via ethernet

airport time capsule, can I access time machine using an ethernet cable.
I find the wi-fi connection to my iMac creates a unreasonable lag when accessing time machine.
My iMac is connected to the internet through the ATC so can I configure it to send/receive files via the ethernet connection?

Connect an Ethernet cable from one of the three LAN <--> ports on the Time Capsule to your Mac. Turn off the WIFi on the Mac and you are all set.
Whether or not the Ethernet connection will result in significantly faster performance when you enter Time Machine is open to question, since a lot of data must be loaded when you start up Time Machine to look at backups. In most cases though, a wired connection will load things faster than wireless.
Please let us know on your results.

Accessing Time Capsule via Ethernet

I've installed TC and it works fine via wireless, I now want to setup TC via Ethernet wired cable because some of our workstations do not have wireless access, does anyone know if there is a step by step process in doing this.
Thanks in advance.

I have what I think - can't be exactly sure from your description - is a very similar setup.
I have a Netgear Router/CableModem attached to the cable modem. The router provides 802.11b/g wireless and has some wired 10/100 ethernet computers connected. This router only support 10/100 for the wired connections.
This configuration was in place before I added the TC (and the Mac Pro for that matter)
It wasn't broke so I didn't want to fix it -- so I left it in place with the Netgear being the DHCP server for IP addresses for all machines on the network.
I added a 8 port 10/100/GB switch to enable the Macs and the TC to communicate at GB speeds. The "upstream" side of the switch went to the Net gear router.
The MacPro, a ethernet cable for allowing the Macbook wired access, and the TC are attached to the 10/100/GB switch. The TC is connected to the switch from its WAN port.
The TC also serves as a base for a 802.11n network (separate from the b/g network - unique SSIDs.)
The TC is in bridge mode so that only the Netgear router does the assigning of all devices on the entire network - wired and the 2 wireless ones.
Here is some details of the specification for the Time Capsule in my configuration:
The TC connected via its Ethernet WAN port to an ordinary Ethernet port on the Netgear Router. I configured TC as follows:
-Internet tab (in manual setup) of the AirPort Utility as follows:
Connect Using: Ethernet
Configure IPv4: Using DHCP (This confused me for a moment - it means have the TC get its IP stuff via DHCP - i.e. from the NetGear)
Ethernet WAN Port: Automatic (Default)
Connection Sharing: Off (Bridge Mode) - this lets the Netgear assign all the IP addresses to everyone on the network)
-Airport Tab -> Wireless
Network Name: A different name (SSID) than the Netgear's SSID
Radio Mode: 802.11n only (2.4GHz)
Channel: Automatic
Wireless Security: WPA/WPA2 Personal with a password
Under Wireless Options - Check Create a closed network
I'm sure that there are other combinations that work, may work better, but this suits the way this house is laid out/ wired and the way we use our machines. For one I have chosen to not leave the TC on 24/7 - heat/power. The Netgear doesn't get warm at all and stays on 24/7. It also means for me that I can define both wireless networks on the 802.11n capable machines so that they can be wireless in the, for us, very unusual circumstance that the TC would be off when wireless access would be needed by these devices..
Hope this Helps.

How do I connect my time capsule to the internet wirelessly

I recently moved to a house where the internet is provided wielessly. So I don't have access to the modem to hook up my Time capsule. Is there away I can hook it up with out connecting it to a modem? If so how might I go about doing so?

Go to the wireless area of the airport setup.. and select wireless mode but hold down the option key.
A new option will present, join wireless network.
This is really poor way to run the TC though. It will stop ethernet working. And you will double hop wireless to the TC.
Would it be possible to have the TC standalone and plugged by ethernet into the computer.. that would be a much better solution. or for the time being just use external drive..

How do I stop my Time Capsule seeking the internet?

I have taken my Time Capsule out of the internet connection feed, as I found it was slowing things down. My internet connection is much faster now that it comes to my iMac direct from the 50MB feed via the wireless router supplied by my provider. So I have connected the Time Capsule to my iMac via ethernet cable, and it now backs up much more speedily than it did when doing it wirelessly. The problem I have is that I keep getting an error screen from Airport Utility telling me that my Time Capsule is reporting problems. The problem (I assume) is that it is trying to find the internet but can't. Can I disable this so that it works simply as a hard-wired back up disk?

Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utillities > AirPort Utility
Click Manual Setup
Click directly on the word "Status" (2nd line on the summary page) and a window will open to explain why the Time Capsule is complaining.
You should be given an option to "ignore" the problem, which is probably a message that you do not have an Internet connection at the Time Capsule
Click Update to save the new settings and the Time Capsule will display a green light in 25-30 seconds

Problems accessing time capsule data "The operation can't be completed because the original [...]"

So as my title would suggest, I'm having time capsule issues.
First of all, I'm running a MBPret late 2013. Currently I'm trying to setup my time capsule in my university dorm room for two reasons:
1) I want to use the internet they provide us.
2) I want to use time capsule as a backup drive.
I am not permitted to use wifi as per my contract with the university, unfortunate, but fine, I can use ethernet, I have the ethernet -> thunderbolt adapter.
Now, thus far, I've setup my time capsule normally (this is second setup not the first) and I performed a hard reset before connecting it all here. Before here it was setup at my previous house. After that I disabled the wireless and enabled secure shared disks "with device password".
I don't have internet access yet, though I believe this is a problem on the administrator side not mine, but the real problem is that I cannot access the data folder on my time capsule in finder. I've tried erasing the volume, hard resetting and setting up again, I keep getting the same error message:
"The operation can’t be completed because the original item for "Data" can't be found"
Any suggestions?
Regards

If you don't have applecare you will need to pay if you want the genuine article but your problem is familiar and Apple support is likely to say your the first person they have ever heard of with this problem.. even when every second post here refers to it.
Here is my standard list. Work through it and tell me if you succeed.
The cause is Yosemite btw.
A factory reset of the TC is the start.. it is required so you can find it again.
Factory reset universal
Power off the TC.. ie pull the power cord or power off at the wall.. wait 10sec.. hold in the reset button.. be gentle.. power on again still holding in reset.. and keep holding it in for another 10sec. You may need some help as it is hard to both hold in reset and apply power. It will show success by rapidly blinking the front led. Release the reset.. and wait a couple of min for the TC to reset and come back with factory settings. If the front LED doesn’t blink rapidly you missed it and simply try again. The reset is fairly fragile in these.. press it so you feel it just click and no more.. I have seen people bend the lever or even break it. I use a toothpick as tool.
N.B. None of your files on the hard disk of the TC are deleted.. this simply clears out the router settings of the TC.
Setup the TC again.
ie Start from a factory reset. No files are lost on the hard disk doing this.
Then redo the setup from the computer with Yosemite.
1. Use very short names.. NOT APPLE RECOMMENDED names. No spaces and pure alphanumerics.
eg TCgen5 and TCwifi for basestation and wireless respectively.
Even better if the issue is more wireless use TC24ghz and TC5ghz with fixed channels as this also seems to help stop the nonsense. But this can be tried in the second round.
2. Use all passwords that also comply but can be a bit longer. ie 8-20 characters mixed case and numbers.. no non-alphanumerics.
3. Ensure the TC always takes the same IP address.. you will need to do this on the main router using dhcp reservation.. or a bit more complex setup using static IP in the TC. But this is important.. having IP drift all over the place when Yosemite cannot remember its own name for 5 min after a reboot makes for poor networking. If the TC is main router it will not be an issue.
4. Check your share name on the computer is not changing.. make sure it also complies with the above.. short no spaces and pure alphanumeric.. but this change will mess up your TM backup.. so be prepared to do a new full backup. Sorry.. keep this one for second round if you want to avoid a new backup.
5. Mount the TC disk in the computer manually.
In Finder, Go, Connect to server from the top menu,
Type in SMB://192.168.0.254 (or whatever the TC ip is which you have now made static. As a router by default it is 10.0.1.1 and I encourage people to stick with that unless you know what you are doing).
You can use name.. SMB://TCgen5.local where you replace TCgen5 with your TC name.. local is the default domain of the TC and doesn't change.
However names are not so easy as IP address.. nor as reliable. At least not in Yosemite they aren't. The domain can also be an issue if you are not plugged or wireless directly to the TC.
6. Make sure IPv6 is set to link-local only in the computer. For example wireless open the network preferences, wireless and advanced / TCP/IP.. and fix the IPv6. to link-local only.
There is a lot more jiggery pokery you can try but the above is a good start.. if you find it still unreliable.. don't be surprised.
You might need to do some more work on the laptop itself. eg Reset the PRAM.. has helped some people. Clean install of the OS is also helpful if you upgrade installed.
Tell us how you go.
Someone posted a solution.. See this thread.
Macbook can't find Time Capsule anymore
Start from the bottom and work up.. I have a list of good network practice changes but I have avoided Yosemites bug heaven.
This user has had success and a few others as well.
RáNdÓm GéÉzÁ
Yosemite has serious DNS bug in the networking application.. here is the lets say more arcane method of fixing it by doing a network transplant from mavericks.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/01/why-dns-in-os-x-10-10-is-broken-and-what-yo u-can-do-to-fix-it/

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