TIme capsule as home media server - possible?

Hi
looking to have all my music and pic's in one spot to access from our 3 MBP's
can TC do the job or how would you recommend we do this wirelessly
besides having it on the net? as we're talking a lot of gb's here here...
Thanks already for your help
Christian

ct08 wrote:
looking to have all my music and pic's in one spot to access from our 3 MBP's
can TC do the job or how would you recommend we do this wirelessly
besides having it on the net?
It's not clear what you mean by "do this wirelessly besides having it on the net".
I believe you can do what you describe, but you might want to consider putting those files on a USB disk drive attached to a Time Capsule. That way would leave the Time Capsule disk free for Time Machine backups.

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