Setting Up Time Capsule for External Access

Hello all,
I am trying to set up my Time Capsule to be accessed without local Wi-Fi. I can use Back to My Mac to access the Time Capsule from my iMac, but not from my iPhone as Back to My Mac isn't intergrated into iOS. I use File Browser on my iPhone to access my TC from LAN, and it seems likely the TC can also be accessed through 4G using File Browser, too.
My first question is, can the Time Capsule be accessed through the internet (by port forwarding or something)?
Second question if the first is possible, how do I do so? (step by step instructions please)
I have the latest model of Time Capsule and AirPort Utility.
Thanks!
- Noah

Filebrowser can be used to remotely access the TC.
There are instructions in the filebrowser website.. have you tried those?
http://www.stratospherix.com/support/gsw_timecapsule.php?page=6remote
The one area where I think you might have issues is global domain name.. as that has been problematic.
You really need a static public IP from your ISP for this to be successful.
See Tesserax doco on remote access especially the global domain instructions.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3413
There is a hugely better method BTW..
Buy a vpn router and substitute that for the Time Capsule.. which can then be bridged behind the router.
VPN client is built into iOS and every mainline OS available. It is robust and has far superior security.
Note carefully the method you are going to use with iphone is opening your TC to attack. They have hidden the SMB port, but in reality.. any hacker will one day do a port scan on you and find it open.. no matter what port it is translated to.. at that point your password will be the only thing stopping access to outsider.. and they can often get around that.. or mount Man in the Middle type attack, since passwords in SMB are not secure.
Not that I think a hacker is going to waste their time doing it.. but it is just so you know.. it is fundamentally wrong.

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LannyRLevenson wrote:
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Hello,
I tried finding the answers in here but wasn't able to. So I apologize if this redundant.
Here's what I have that's important to my Q. I just bought a Time Capsule to replace my wireless router. I want to use the Time Machine for my MacBook and as an external hard drive for my 2 PCs. The wireless setup went smoothly, no concerns there. Same with the TM backup.
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jcbautista50 wrote:
I used the Disk Utility on my MacBook to partition the TC into 2 partitions
Are you saying that you used Disk Utility to partition the internal drive of the Time Capsule? That's not supposed to be possible without taking the drive out of the Time Capsule.
250 GB for TM
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