HELP Cant access Time Capsule

I live next door to my brother and would access his network from my house. So my time capsule is set up on his network. Now I have my own internet access and I want to switch it over to my network but i dont know how. Whenever the airport utility looks for the Time Capsule it doesnt find it Please HELP

Use an ethernet cable to connect the computer to one the LAN ports on the Time Capsule and then Airport Utility will find it. Another option would be to do a hard reset on the Time Capsule and then reconfigure it the same as when you first got it. Instructions below on how to reset the settings.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1300

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  • I cant access time capsule hard drive.

    I cant access time capsule hard drive. Everything was working before but all of a sudden i get an error msg when double clicking on my network drive which states ' The local device name is already in use'. The time capsule wireless network works fine though. I am using Vista 64.

    Reboot the entire network.. everything must go off.. all stuff off.
    Restart in order.. modem.. router.. TC (maybe also working as router).. other network stuff.. clients.
    Can vista now open the disk?
    If not try doing it manually.. in windows explorer type the TC address \\10.0.1.1 for instance.. whatever IP it has. I just used default as example.
    If no good, open the airport utility which I hope you have installed.
    Make sure the TC name is short no spaces pure alphanumeric.
    Make sure workgroup is correct and guest access is on with read and write permissions.
    If still no good.. press and hold the reset.. redo the setup.
    Later TC firmware is useless for windows users.. the best was 7.5.2 which you should go back to.
    Do you have other clients using the TC? Are they all ok?
    vista.. shudder.. has one virtue.. it made me give up windows and move to Mac OS.

  • Help needed in Time Capsule configuration

    Hello everybody,
    sorry in advance for the probably dummy questions, but I have just bought a Time Capsule and would like some advice in order to obtain the best possible configuration for my needs (the configuration guide was not so clear to me).
    I linked the TC via Ethernet to my modem/router (I have a Vodafone Station 2), and I have the following requirements:
    1) let the TC become the primary WiFi source: what is the best way to do it? Shall I deactivate the Wi-Fi on the Vodafone Station? Shall I create a new network or extend the existing one?
    2) create a guest network (possibly with another password): I can I do it? I didn't succeed in doing it...
    3) I would like to use the TC internal hard disk both as a sort of reporitory for my MacBook Air backup, and at the same time as an external hard disk; can I do it directly or should I create a partition on the disk?
    4) I would like to add another external HD via USB to the TC, in order to have access to its content through various devices (MacBook, iPhone, iPad, PC) linked to the WiFi network. Also in this case I couldn't get it... How should I do that?
    5) Finally, I have a question: is it possible to remotely access (e.g. via 3G) the TC hard disk?
    Thank you in advance for any help you can give me!!
    Regards

    dottorslump wrote:
    Hello everybody,
    sorry in advance for the probably dummy questions, but I have just bought a Time Capsule and would like some advice in order to obtain the best possible configuration for my needs (the configuration guide was not so clear to me).
    I linked the TC via Ethernet to my modem/router (I have a Vodafone Station 2), and I have the following requirements:
    1) let the TC become the primary WiFi source: what is the best way to do it? Shall I deactivate the Wi-Fi on the Vodafone Station? Shall I create a new network or extend the existing one?
    You do not want to extend.. well actually you cannot extend a non-apple router.. so put that out.
    The TC will probably have to be in bridge mode.. but it can become the primary wifi source.. simply create a wireless network. Turn off wireless in the vodafone station.
    But from your other requirement of a guest network.. you cannot do that in bridge on the TC.. so why not use the vodafone station as your guest network. Give TC wireless a different name. Fix the channels. Try to have them sit a bit apart from one another.. A few Meters at least.
    2) create a guest network (possibly with another password): I can I do it? I didn't succeed in doing it...
    You cannot do guest network with the TC in bridge. So you need to either bridge the modem and use pppoe client in the TC.. that depends on if your ISP supports PPPoE authentication.
    3) I would like to use the TC internal hard disk both as a sort of reporitory for my MacBook Air backup, and at the same time as an external hard disk; can I do it directly or should I create a partition on the disk?
    This is not really a good idea.. You cannot partition a TC.. Mixing data and backups can be done but it is not necessarily going to work well. The primary design of the TC is a backup target for TM and mainly looking at laptops.
    Look at Q3 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
    Pondini is our guru on all things TM.
    Particularly remember any files offloaded to the TC have no backups.. And TC is not reliable enough to trust. It is a single hard disk and has no form of automated backup.. nor can TM backup a network drive. Any backup of info on the TC has to be done manually.
    4) I would like to add another external HD via USB to the TC, in order to have access to its content through various devices (MacBook, iPhone, iPad, PC) linked to the WiFi network. Also in this case I couldn't get it... How should I do that?
    The USB port of the TC is renowned for being underpowered even if the hard drive is powered you might need a powered hub. Some hubs work and some don't so even that is not simple.
    USB drive has to be formatted Mac Extended Journelled. Or fat32.
    5) Finally, I have a question: is it possible to remotely access (e.g. via 3G) the TC hard disk?
    In your case the answer is probably.. but this will not be easy.
    Apple's only method is BTMM via iCloud, but the TC must be the main router in the network.
    That means you need to bridge your existing modem.
    You might be able to get it to work via the existing modem. Please google remote access time capsule.
    You will need to port forward AFP to the TC in the modem and use ddns to find the correct address unless your ISP has given you a static IP.
    Sorry for the glass half empty answer.

  • Problems accessing Time Capsule on windows Vista

    I have an iMac running Leopard and a laptop running Vista Home Edition. I'm having some problems accessing Time Capsule from the Vista machine. everytime I click to access the drive, a message appears in the menu bar of the window that says (not responding). I've tried leaving it. I've even changed my entire wireless network to bypass the original g router (belkin) to use TC, so I now have TC as my router, Belkin just setup as a wired broadband modem but I still get the same problem. The mac seems fine, although I have had quite a few issues with drop outs.
    both machines have the latest version of Airport Utility and Bonjour.
    The laptop is a recent purchase to replace a dead XP machine, this worked fine and I managed to get stuff backed up just before it died, thankgod.
    Any help appreciated.

    No problem seeing Time Capsule with iMac, Dell desktop XP Home, Dell notebook XP Pro, and Fusion with XP Pro. All installed according to the installation guide. Installed AirPort Utility on all machines and updated firmware to 7.3.1. To see the other machines, make sure file sharing is on. Firewall on the PCs may need to be turned off. The printer plugged into the USB port also worked with all the XP systems and the iMac with a few missing features on iMac (I am assuming different driver issues). BTW, logging onto the created network and accessing the Time Capsule HD are separate. If you've entered different passwords for the HD and wireless networking when setting up Time Capsule initially (which I did through the iMac first), you'll need to enter them separately with the XP machines. You could also try resetting Time Capsule. Seems to work for others.

  • After upgrading to Lion I can't access time capsule pre lion.

    Last week I backedup to time capsule via cable.
    I then upgraded to Lion.
    After upgrading I backedup to TC again.
    Now my MBP 17  can't access time capsule pre lion. So I can't see any of my last 2 years of Snow Leopard data.

    yikes, I had to move all my years of iPhoto folders/pix from very old iMac to a new HP laptop with PC Vista Home Premium....now finally ready and hoping to do years worth of photo albums! so I go in to these files and of course they don't open...because they're on pc.
    - I am techno ignorant on all this, what can I do? Is there any way I can open these on PC or do I need to go back and reinstall on a very very very old AND slow slow slow mac? these photos were created in 199, 200, 2001 up through 2007 so through many versions of iPhoto and Mac OS. I am hoping I can retrieve them - and very worried I cannot! Would love advice and help.
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  • 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.

  • Hi. I am using a time capsule for few PC s. I have made 5 different account to access time capsule. but in windows when i enter account name and password for one account, i cannot access other accounts, because windows saves username

    Hi. I am using a time capsule for few PC s. I have made 5 different account to access time capsule. but in windows when I enter account name and password for one account, i cannot access other accounts, because windows saves username. how can i prevent this from happenning. I really need to access all my accounts and dont want it to save automaticlly.

    Why have 5 accounts if you need to access all of them.. just have one account?
    Sorry I cannot follow why you would even use the PC to control the Time Capsule. Apple have not kept the Windows version of the utility up to date.. so they keep making it harder and harder to run windows with apple routers.

  • 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.

  • Can I access time capsule file without using imac

    can I access time capsule file without using imac

    From a time machine backup? No. If you mean just a regular file stored on there? Not directly. There are a couple of apps out there where you can indirectly get to a file but it's a pain. If you have need of accessing a file both from the mac and the iPad then I suggest DropBox. You get 2GB free and it's a good way to share information between machines and devices.

  • Where are my photos?  just tried to access time capsule after my first back up and am unable to open iphoto to verify they were backed up.

    where are my photos?  just tried to access time capsule after my first back up and am unable to open iphoto to verify they were backed up.

    You can't open your backups directly with apps.
    But you can see some types of files in your backups.  If you're still on Snow Leopard (or Lion with iPhoto '09 or earlier), see the gray box at the end of Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #15.
    If you're on Lion with iPhoto '11, you can use the Finder to see the iPhoto library, per the beginning of that same link.  All you can see there is the library and size.

  • Can you access Time Capsule From any where, or do you have to be on the same network

    Can you access Time Capsule From any where, or do you have to be on the same network

    check out the post by Tesserax in this discussion.

  • Can you access time capsule from a mac over the internet

    Can you access time capsule from a mac over the internet?

    Yes. See this thread about how to access the disk attached to a Time Capsule.  Access to the Time Capsule itself can be done similarly.

  • WiFi bandwidth required to access Time Capsule hard disk

    Hey all,
    Recently I moved, switched, houses. In this new house I have put my Time Capsule in the living room, and my computer is in the bedroom.
    Ever since I did that, I had troubles accessing Time Capsule hard drive. It would often get disconnected, Time Machine could not "find backup disk", streaming video was not working, and more.
    At first I thought that in the move I managed to bump TC a bit too hard and that maybe hard drive itself was damaged. Then I moved my MBP to kitchen, to do some work there (kitchen overlooks living room, there is a direct visual link to TC from there, no walls in between).
    Taaa-daaaa! Connection to Time Capsule and the hard drive inside was perfect again.
    However, all of the WiFi signal indicators, on both my Mac and other iOS devices are full when I am in my bedroom. The signal is therefore strong enough to make these devices think there is a 5/5 signal quality. But obviously that is wrong signaling. Not even Air Port utiliy gave any clues that even tho WiFi signal was 5/5 the actual bandwidth was not even close sufficient for optimal access to Time Capsule's hard disk. Which is just silly.
    Dear Apple, would it be possible to implement some sort of speed check into Air Port Utility which actually checks _REAL_ state of bandwidth and then advises what to do; "Please move closer to the Time Capsule Basestation, bandwidth is too low to access".
    I will say it again; the WiFi indicators are all 5/5, and everything regarding regular internet access and similar works awesome. But connection to hard disk obviously requires epic signal strength and no software indicates that.

    If the Time Capsule is providing a wireless network signal, an Internet connection does not need to exist to move files from the Mac to the Time Capsule, or vice versa.
    Log onto the Time Capsule wireless network
    Open Macintosh HD
    Look for the Time Capsule icon under the SHARED heading on the left side of the window
    Click on the Time Capsule icon and a folder named Data (unless you have renamed it) will appear to the right
    Double click Data to mount the drive on the Mac's desktop
    Open the drive on the desktop and you can drag/drop files over to the destination that you choose on the Mac.
    Once the file transfer is complete, double check to make sure that the files are back on your Mac and everything is working properly. Then, you can erase the Time Capsule hard drive.

  • Accessing time capsule

    can i access time capsule at home from different place ,like my work

    Yes, use BTMM and iCloud is the easiest..
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3486
    But only from a Mac!!

  • Airport utlitiy cant find TIme Capsule

    While looking for answers to my problem there are several here but none quite fit my problem. I just purchased an A1335 1tb time capsule and upon receiving it started to set it up. My macbook did not find it at first wirelessly till I hooked it up to an ethernet cable. I went through settings and tried to set it up only as wireless network for now seeing as I dont have DSL or cable internet at the moment. However after I finished it went to reset ans restart everything and then it came up with an error ans said now it cant find it all. SO I turned it off and restarted manually thinking it should at least see it. I cant get anything. and to top it off the machine is flashing some sort of error code and I have no way of telling what cause I cant find it. haha
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    We will try to adjust the settings on your Time Capsule first, without completely reconfiguring it, but that may be necessary if these steps do not work correctly.
    Make sure that  you have an Ethernet cable connected from the modem to the WAN port (circle of dots icon) on the Time Capsule
    Connect your spare Ethernet cable from one of the LAN <-> ports on the Time Capsule to your Mac
    Restart the modem, the Time Capsule and the Mac
    Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
    Click Manual Setup
    If you are able to access the settings of the Time Capsule, click the Internet icon and make sure that your settings look like this:
    Connect Using = Ethernet
    Connection Sharing = Off (Bridge Mode)
    Click Update at the lower right of the window and the Time Capsule will restart in 25-30 seconds
    Restart the Mac and leave the Ethernet cable connected for now. See if you can use your browser to get an Internet connection.
    Post back on your progress

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