PC won't recognize my Time Capsule

I finally got m time capsule to work on my MacBook. I had a bear of a time putting in the power cord, and the light flashed amber to no avail for 3 days!!!! It finally works, but my PC will not recognize the time capsule. It starts, shows the capsule on the left, but when I try to continue...or manually set up I get an error.
When I turn on my computer, It recognizes it for 1 second, asks me to enter a password, and then says that the airport can't find some NETBIOS. My PC is not connected wirelessly. It is connected via ethernet plug. Any suggestions?

I was having the exact same problem, but just fixed it based off of this post. I spent a day looking for an answer, so hopefully this will help someone quicker than that.
1) Open Airport on your Mac and go to manual setup
2) On the top row, choose internet
3) On the "internet connection" page, write down the DNS server(s) numbers
4) On your PC (I'm running XP) go to Network Connections
5) Select your Local Area Connection - highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and choose properties
6) Enter the DNS numbers into the relevant fields and press OK
After I did that, the Time Capsule finally let me connect and get on the internet (the drive is also showing up as a networked drive).
Hopefully this helps someone.
Message was edited by: Jack343

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Plug it into the computer by ethernet.. press and hold the reset until the front LED flashes rapidly and start over.

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In this case the TC should be in bridge mode.
Win8 is still problematic. Try using ethernet instead of wireless. I think the drivers are poor still and it is well worth having a try via ethernet if you haven't already.
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What is the network setup where you are now?
I particularly need to know details of the IP address you get from the system.
I wrote a post a while back with the method.. look at the screenshots near the bottom of the page.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4817218?tstart=30
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www.fifa-royale.de
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It is definitely having issues finding the Apple routers.. turn on ipv6 local-link in the computer.. but that may fail without wireless turned on in the TC if the FIOS router doesn't give you ipv6.. which is still a work in progress on most modems and routers.
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HI all
I have been using TM to backup to an Iomega portable drive but because the drive is relatively small and because I thought that having less wires around the place would be a good thing, I bought Time Capsule. However when I try to backup to TC I get one and/or two error messages. The first is that backup failed because TM couldn't create a directory. The second is that backup failed because TM couldn't write the files. When the first message occurs it's during the 'preparing backup' phase. The second happens with about 200mb copied.
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