Intermittently can't see the time capsule

Greetings! For the past little while, my Macbook Air is intermittently losing the Time Capsule under "shared" in my computer. We have another Macbook Air, and a couple PC's in the house and they never drop the Time Capsule. We have named the Time Capsule, and so when you look under "shared" in the working Macbook, you'll see the Time Capsule as we have named it, then when you click on it, you'll see the Time Capsule which you can click on the see the files. On my Macbook, the named Time Capsule is usually there, but now and then, it just won't show. A restart doesn't seem to be a reliable fix. It's a strange problem. Does anyone have any ideas why this could be happening? Thanks very much!

First of all the TC has to be connected in bridge usually or at least so the computers are behind it's NAT if in router mode.. does the PC get the same IP range as the TC?
Then ping the TC to make sure it is not blocked by firewalls.. if the PC is set to homegroup for instance then you may have issues. And networking is set on the PC to home.
I presume you have access to the TC setup via a Mac..
1. The default TC name is usually not compliant with SMB network names.. nor is wireless name.. so reduce all names to short, no spaces no special characters.. passwords can be longer but still no spaces no special characters.
2. You haven't said if access is wireless or wired but guessing wired and you want disk access, go to the disk page sharing in the TC and set WORKGROUP.. to same name as PC. Also it is usually easier to turn on the guest account to have read write access. In your work situation maybe.. maybe not.. anyway that depends on how it will be used. You can also change the security to user passwords but that will stop all existing access to files.

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Can someone help me with this... ?

As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end.. amen!!
Welcome to ML excellent standard networking.. I am awarding it the golden vista OS of the year.
Did you turn it off and on again??
Will no longer be the first phrase of all windows servicing.. it now extends to Macs as well.
Maybe an auto electrical clock where you setup a timed daily reboot.. !!
A mechanical one of course.. cannot trust those electronical versions.. they might use OS as reliable as Vista!!

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Nickles96 wrote:
Hello friends.. I have a similar question, in that I would like to purchase the 2TB TC for use as a NAS device, in addition to taking advantage of the Air Port extreme.. Then I could dump my Linksys router.
I was originally looking at a Synology NAS solution, but the TC seems like it can meet my needs.
I have a Synology NAS as well as the Time Capsule. If you look at the 3.2 beta program, the Synology actually attempts to replicate TC functionality in that you can use it with Time Machine on your Mac.
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Nickles96 wrote:
In addition to the obvious feature of the backup, can I indeed also use the TC as a NAS drive to access from remote locations (example from the office)?
I'm surprised more people aren't using the TC as a dedicated NAS deviced.. I've searched high and low on forums around the web, and don't seem to see many people trying to use it as I've outlined.
I can't see why this wouldn't fufill my needs, and take the place of a separate NAS solution (like the Synology, or iOmega, Seagate, etc....)
Has anyone used this TC as such?
Yes, you can do this and it's something I've been trying to do, but I'm currently having issues. I have another thread stating I consistently get "connection failed" messages. I'm basically storing my music/photo/video files on the TC and keeping my Mac hard drive fairly lean. In terms of NAS functionality, the TC is very basic. Synology/QNAP and others have a lot more features so don't rule them out.

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Hi
Thanks for any help with this :
I use my capsule about once every 2 weeks to back up the MBP.
Have a new MBP and wanted to back it up for the first time. The MBP is running 10.7.2.
It could see the Time Capsule originally but said it needed a firmware update as its an original 1TB capsiule:
I don't have the capsule connected to the internet directly because I just don't like the idea of that.
When you'd disconnect the MBP from the internet WiFi, to connect to the Capsule, the capsule would say it needed an update - HOWEVER when you'd connect back to the WiFi network then airport utility didn't see a capsule to see a need for the firmware update:
My questions are:
1) can you download the firmware manually.
2) can the USB slot be used for connecting to the computer ??? It seem not to be possible as nothing comes up on the computer when the two are connected
I tried other strategies like setting up the Capsule on the house WiFi - now the MBP can't see the Capsule at all at all, ----green light on, soft resets done, USB in the back.
The only thing I havn't tried yet is to get an Ethernet cable - years since I had one and lost. Guess I'll have to go out and get one
Thanks
Tom

partial solution - hold the reset button down for longer than one sec, held it down for 5-6 sec and this reset the connection info to default so the computer could see it again.
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igonneau wrote:
Can i get the time capsule to automatically back up my file from my Mac Book Air but have certain files which are only stored on the time capsule and not the computer?
You can, but how are you going to back up those other files? When (not if) your Time Capsule fails, you risk losing them. See #Q3 in Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule for details.
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Not sure what you mean. You have to connect a computer, either via Ethernet cable or wirelessly, to read or write to the disk.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1391

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Another thing to think about , besides a Time Capsule failure, is the theft of your Time Capsule, so it might be a good idea to consider separating any redundant back-up from your Time Capsule or both my be stolen.
TC will back up until full and then begin deleting the oldest back-ups. Mine is a 2TB Time capsule.
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5. Office documents (Excel, Powerpoint, Access etc) are stored in a Skydrive app (like iCloud) and Skydrive syncs these docuemnts with the MS cloud and my old PC and does not alter their native format like storing in iCloud would do.
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Can the internal HD be partitioned?

This is asked several times a day.. obviously people are struggling with their latest SSD being too small.
The TC is not suitable for network file server.. but many people having no choice press it into service as such.
It cannot be partitioned. It was and is and ever shall be a backup device for Time Machine.
Major issues.
1. No backup.. no way Time Machine can backup a network drive. No place to backup to.. So all your files will be at risk. And you will need to buy a third party like CCC to do backup.
2. The TC cannot be partitioned and mixing TM backups and data is not great.
3. The drive is slow to spin up and quick to spin down.. there is no controls.
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