Time Capsule - problems with file sharing

Time Capsule is working great with Time Machine, but I can't copy files to it even after enabling file sharing in AirPort Utility. I'd really like to move my iTunes library to it since the external drive it currently lives on is full and the TC has about 1.96TB still free. Any thoughts on what the problem is? I see it under "shared" in Finder, but all I can see is the "data" folder and I get warnings that the drive is read only. Thanks for any help you all might be able to provide!

Not Bob .. but it is fairly simple.
When we say external drive we mean a drive plugged physically directly into the Mac.
It can then be backed up by TM.
Just open the TM preference and click on the options.. it should automagically include all disks connected to local machine. You can exclude a drive though. Make sure nothing is excluded .. if it is uncheck it.
TM cannot backup a Network drive but can use a drive as long as it is correctly formatted and accessible to Mac OS as a target for the backup.
I would also recommend you do a straight backup of your disk. 500GB drive is cheap. Get a USB holder and do that direct file copy or use a software like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. The later can make a direct copy of the disk in the freeware version. IMHO it is a lot easier to recover.. the increments if you already have the bulk.

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I'm having an odd problem when setting up a Mac Pro with File Sharing. I have a second Hard Drive in it which is a Server Drive to be shared as a networked Hard Drive for both my MBP and my Fiancee's MBP. Here is the problem I have.
I set up File Sharing and set up both her ID and my ID. Since this is done she is able to get to drive from my MBP and she is able to get to the drive from her MBP. I am able to read or write to those folders. She is able to view them but is unable to write to them.
I went to the Server Drive icon on the Mac Pro's Desktop. When I right click and do "Get Info" and select Sharing I can tell her ID is not listed on any of the Folders. She is listed as Read and Write for the entire Hard Drive (which is an internal drive). I am also listed as Read and WRite and then it lists Everyone and says No Access. The same is listed in System Preferences in File Sharing. I have heard this Everyone 'No Access' can cause problems but I prefer not to give access to everyone. The only other option is Read Only and Read and Write. Also, when I have Everyone selected the - sign is greyed out so I'm unable to remove Everyone.
To continue, what is strange is I thought with it saying on the Server Drive itself for my Fiancee, read & write, that it would say this on every Folder inside. Yet when I select any Folder inside on the Server Drive and select Get Info it says for me "Read & Write" and for Staff "Read Only" and for Everyone "Read only" I'm not even sure where Staff comes fro and of course Everyone is Read Only and my Fiancee not even listed. It just seems that these file sharing permissions are not replicated througout all the Folders when I select it for the Hard Drive itself. What could be causing this and how can I get the same to go throughout the Folders? I know manually I could change them all but this would take a long time and likely still be a problem when any additional Folders are added.

1. I have turned logged into it from my MBP while at Home and if I'm logged in as Guest I only see the Server Drive which is good. My concern is that if I log in with my login I then sell all Folders including the Main 'Macintosh HD' At least as a guest I can only see the Server Drive but is it any way I can stop it from showing all the other folders on the computer since I have no reason to do that?
When you login to a mac as an administrator it is normal to see all the contents of the volumes connected to that mac.
2. Also, I would like to disable all access for Guest. Yet I have it list Everyone or Guest in the file sharing and I have no way of deleting this. I don't want a Guest to be able to connect to this computer or share any files at all on it. Is there any way to disable this?
Goto system preferernces-->accounts
click on the lock to and enter your password to unlock the preference pane.
Then select the guest account. Then uncheck the 2 check boxes. The account should now have 'disabled' underneath it.
3. Security: How secure is this? I am using it on a Home Wi-Fi network with an Airport Base Station 1GB. I have the Leopard filewall set to "Set Access for Specific Services" since it won't work with "Allow only essential services" I hope my home network is more security but with Back to my Mac how hard would it be for someone to be able to find this computer on the network? I don't do any filesharing on my MBP but do have it set up for File Sharing but only with my login ID.
If you have your base station set to distribute ip addresses then it is acting as a NAT router and will firewall you.
I have not setup back to my mac yet so can't comment on its security. Although I would suggest a strong password.
have a read of Mac OS X 10.5: About Back to My Mac security
My method of remote access is to use SSH and run screen sharing over an SSH tunnel.

Problems with File Sharing.... prev query unanswered

Hello everyone,
I posted this query last month and have yet to solve the problem. I was hoping for some fresh ideas.
I am running a network on an OS X Server between three labs (around 50 computers connected). One lab has 3 IBMs running with Windows XP that are connected directly to a switch (via cable) and 1 IMac that runs from an airport device (Base).
The second lab has 3 computers running from the switch, and 3 Macs running from an additional airport baystation (located in that lab).
The problem I am having deals with file sharing. We have several folders which all users have access to ("public" folders) as well as "user" folders which allow access to the individual users, faculty members, and the admin account.
All permissions under "server preferences" seem to be defined appropriately.
Eg) selected "only those registered users" with specified user access indicated.
Initially after setup, all folder access within the two primary labs appears correct on all computers. However, within a few days, all Macs that run from the Baystation in the second lab no longer show correct folder access.
No problems occur with the IMac in the first lab.
Typically only one student folder will appear, and it will not be the correct one. No public folders show up (or rarely do). I had thought it may be a problem with users logging out, so I changed settings to induce an automatic logout after 30min of inactivity. This worked at first, but the problem again started after a few days.
I have tried many things and this problem still seems to occur within a few days of having fixed it. I am wondering if it may be an issue with the Baystation, though I am not sure how to address this. Any ideas would be much appreciated!!
Thanks.

Hi There,
We have just upgraded all design computers to imac and upgraded our software to CS5 and we are still having the same problem.
I called Adobe at the beginning of the week and they told me to speak to our IT department as it could be an issue with the preferances on out network.
Last time I spoke with IT they told me it was an Adobe issue. I am still very concerned about it but I have a tiny bit of relief that someone else is having the same trouble (although very annoying).
Any ideas on how to fix it? Are you running a windows server?
Please let me know if you find out any relevant info on this and I will do the same.
Thanks

Time capsule - problems with directory

I have got time capsule running about two weeks ago and everything worked well Tuesday evening it came up with a message saying it could not access the directory on my Macbook pro - still doing it so switched it off - any suggestions?

Here's something weird. Another annoying issue I've had with TC is that it slows down the network over time. I'm on Uverse at 10/1.5 and after a week or so it's down to about 2.5 to 3 down. A reboot of my Mac and TC and the problem goes away. So while I'm musing about the problem with the directory, I notice I'm starting to slow again. I reboot, and guess what? My directory is back all the way to April when I set it up.
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Problems with file sharing

I'm having a lot of problems setting up OS X 10.5 server. Help with any/all of these issues would be much appreciated.
1. Sometimes, the server "forgets" that my administrator account exists. That is, I log off/restart/shut down normally, and then I can't log back in with my administrator account. I use the installation DVD to reset the password for the localadmin account (whose password no longer works), and when I log in as localadmin, my administrator account is gone & must be re-created. The home folder is still there and intact, so once I re-create the account, I can log in from it and my desktop & dock etc are just like they should be. But it's inconvenient to have to keep doing this; it's happened twice in less than a week. Any suggestions?
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anothersmurf wrote:
1. Sometimes, the server "forgets" that my administrator account exists. That is, I log off/restart/shut down normally, and then I can't log back in with my administrator account. I use the installation DVD to reset the password for the localadmin account (whose password no longer works), and when I log in as localadmin, my administrator account is gone & must be re-created. The home folder is still there and intact, so once I re-create the account, I can log in from it and my desktop & dock etc are just like they should be. But it's inconvenient to have to keep doing this; it's happened twice in less than a week. Any suggestions?
I would create another user in the local domain with a different username that you are certain isn't already used. Give the user administrative privileges. Then the next time that this happens, you can login with this alternate admin user, and determine what the problem is.
Without logging in and looking at the logs and LDAP records, you can only speculate what it might be. Are there two users with the same username, one in the local domain, and another in the shared (network) domain?

Time offset problems with file i/o

Hello everyone, I'm having a problem with the file i/o VI's. I require my application to save serial data at constant five minute intervals. The problem I'm currently seeing is that on each save to a file a time offset is being added which eventually becomes seconds, then minutes and so on. Since this application is meant to be run for a whole year this is a serious problem.
Attached is the VI, an Arduino program simulating how the DAQ sends data and a file showing my time offset problem.
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Jose Molina
P.S.
To run the VI upload the code to an Arduino, select it's serial port in the popup VI then click on Ok. The VI will wait for a time that is a modulo of 5 then create a folder structure inside the same location as the LLB. Inside this folder structure should be a file with the data which should be saved every five minutes if left at the default averaging time.
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Daq_Simulator.zip ‏1 KB
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Sorry I forgot to mention that the averaging time is configurable in the pop up vi at the start. I tried 20 seconds because it's much faster for testing than 5 minutes. Timing is being done by a simple counter that increments each time data is received. So if I receive data the timer increments by 5 because data is sent every 5 seconds. Once the timer is equal to the averaging time the data is sent to the enqueue function and then the blocking dequeue function on the second loop sends the data to the file save vi which then saves the data to the file.
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Problem with file sharing - Lion to Mountain Lion

I have two MBP's. One is running Lion (2011 vintage), the other is running Mountain Lion (2012 vintage). They are connected on my home network as follows:
MBP with Lion --> Ethernet cable --> D-Link Router --> Airport Extreme
MBP with Mountain Lion --> via WiFi to the Airport Extreme (five bars of signal strength)
I turned on file sharing in the MBP/Lion machine and made a couple of folders shared. Then I went to the MBP/Mountain Lion machine and saw the MBP/Lion machine in the sidebar of a finder window, under the shared devices section. I clicked on that icon, and the MBP/Mountain Lion tried to connect for a minute or two then told me it couldn't. I tried this two more times and it failed both times.
Then I tried connecting using the "Connect to Server..." command in the finder. I entered the afp address of the MBP/Lion machine, and the MBP/Mountain Lion machine still failed to connect.
If anybody can help resolve this so that I can access the shared folders, I would appreciate it very much. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Did you try to use Guest account. Make sure it is ON on the Lion machine and permissions are set properly. Then try to connect again from ML.
If that works you have usthentication / permissons issues with the account you are using.
If it does not work let us know and we will take it from that point.
Guest ON is only for testing. I would not leave guest account on unless you know the risk and are OK with that.
TZ

Problem with File Sharing -- Intel IMac Powerbook G4

When I try to connect to my Intel IMac from my G4 laptop, I am able to make an initial connection for file sharing, but when I try to browse the mounted volume, the files don't show up and after about 30 seconds the connection breaks, I get a 'Server Connection Interrupted' message, and the file sharing on the IMac turns off automatically.
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I too have the same problem, a Powerbook that won't let anything connect to it via Personal File Sharing. And I haven't found any explanation in these forums or otherwise. I'm pulling my hair out here...
Simple ethernet network with a Mini & PB G4, OS 10.4.7.
I can sometimes connect to the PB from the Mini via Personal File Sharing. But I always get the "server connection interrupted" dialog, as soon as I try to access the mounted drives. Then the Mini's finder hangs up, and I have to force quit, sometimes taking the entire system down with it.
I've tried connecting to the PB with other machines, and I get the same "server connection interrupted" problem. On the PB, I've rebuilt permissions, deleted /library/preferences/SystemConfiguration..., turned on & off all combinations of services and Directory Access, run fsck, created a fresh account, pretty much everything besides re-installing my system. Nothing fixes the problem.
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Time Capsule problems with the xbox 360

Im not going to type this all out again so i'll give you guys the link to my unanswered post on mac rumors.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=448296
Can anyone help?

Excellent. I did contact my ISP and cross-referenced their list with the bestselling cable modems on Amazon.com. Looks like the Motorola SB5120 Surfboard modem works great. It also has an ethernet port and cable so I guess that'll connect easily to Time Capsule since you said I only need an ethernet cable.
I guess I might have to make sure the initial setup goes good, in which case I might be back here to make sure I did that right.
Thanks for the help though. At least I'll know that I'll have the right hardware that works with everything I have.
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HT201250 time capsule problem with comcast

I have tried to Power down and back my Comcast cable modem and my Time Capsule and still can't connect to my T.C. wirelessly anymore.
I swiched from AT&T 2wire -----> Time Capsule
To: Comcast's SB6141 -----> Time Capsule
Thanks

Here is the power sequence for cable modems and routers.
Router - Time CapsulePower off.
SB6141 - Cable modem
Power off.
Wait 30 seconds
Power on and wait for all lights except the bottom one which would be your T.C.
Router - Time CapsulePower on
There is nothing to configure on your SB6141 cable modem. You might try a different Ethernet port in the rare possibility that the current port has gone bad. These are rock solid cable modems. Have the single-port SB6121.
You will need to run Air Port Utility. My Internet connection screen is set to Share a public IP address. And on the Internet tab, Configure IPv4 Using DHCP. Let the cable modem populate all the addresses on this screen and the DNS servers. Set up your LAN within the DHCP tab. I used 1 day for the lease. In Advanced -> IPv6, it is set to Link-Local only.
I gave my Airport Extreme a Name and intense password. Setting time automatically. Did not allow setup over WAN. Wireless Mode is Create a wireless network. Radio channel selection is automatic, and WPA2 security is up. I am running two wireless networks: 2.4Ghz 802.11a/n - 802.11b/g/n, and a 5Ghz with wide channels.
Don't forget to update the Time Capsule.
In System Preferences >Network, you may want to remove the wireless service and recreate it. On the Wireless > Advanced Screen, you will want to add the Time Capsule SSID to Preferred Networks, and select Remember networks this computer has joined. Then Apply.
If all of this hasn't helped, ask Comcast to ping your cable modem and see if there are any network issues between you and their head end. Occasionally, Comcast gets DNS amnesia and nothing works until they restore it.
Hope this helps.

Apple tv & time capsule problem with ethernet

hi there. my apple tv and time capsule are working just fine on wifi. i want to stream movies stored on the TC faster via ethernet. i plug in the ethernet cable which works fine on other hardware and i cant access the movies. connected via DHCP and also tried a manual IP - still no joy.
HELP.....

I'm not exactly sure what an orange live box is, assume it's a router, is this the router that you mention or another box. What is apparent is that you have at least 2 routers and maybe three (no big issue - I have 6), what is important is that only one of them is issuing IP's.
You can do this either by DHCP or manually (I choose DHCP) from the first device in the chain, ie the one that your telephone cable plugs into, all other routers should be set up in bridging mode (or maybe WDS, but I doubt it from what you have told me)
Can you confirm this is your set up.

Problem with file permissions using Snow Lepord

I'm having problems with file Sharing & Permissions using Snow Lepord.
When I save any new file it only has 'Read & Write' privileges for the user, everyone else is 'read only' or 'no access'.
We have a Netgear NAS Server which is accessed by other users over the local network and if I change the Privilege to 'read & write' via Get Info and then copy the file from my desktop to ther server it changes the Privilege of the server version to 'no access' we then have to change it again for it to work.
I also created a new folder on the server and now it says 'no access' and has a no entry icon!
Any ideas???

We have issues like this. Have tried running AFP and SMB, now connecting using CIFS. All have the same problem. I can work on one or two files fine, then suddenly, one of the files I just worked on says I don't have permissions. I log off the server and log back on, and then I have permissions to the file. It will work fine for one or two operations, then fails. We just updated to OSX Mavericks and a Windows 2012 server, but have been having this issue for years. My permissions look fine. I can even change permissions, but it won't let me work on the file or move or delete the file or rename the file. Once I log out and log back in, I can do anything I want.

I like the idea of auto back-up for my new iMac, Ipad and PC Netbook, particularly if I can access all files and data stored on any device. But I have a Conceptronic router. Will Time Capsule work with this and how?

I like the idea of auto back-up for my new iMac, Ipad and PC Netbook, particularly if I can access all files and data stored on any device. But I have a Conceptronic router.
1. Will Time Capsule work with this and how?
2. Can my printer USB be plugged in and then shared between the devices?
3. Can I create a network and how?
4. What happend when a visitor logs onto my existing wireless router?
I'm new to Macs (well a returning user having started with Mac Plus!!) and not very technical. Any help / advice will be much appreciated.
Ray

The key to what you seem to want to do is to be able to get Apple's Time Capsule router to "join" the network that your Conceptronic router. I believe that works with some third-party routers, but I've never seen a list of those that work in such a configuration and I have no experience with Conceptronic equipment.
You might be better off with a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) device instead of a Time Capsule.

Time Capsule shows with wrong name on Time Machine

I changed the name of my Time Capsule using airport. However, Time Machine still shows the old Time Capsule name, with the new name underneath. When I try to back up using this disk, it shows the following error message:
"Time Machine could not complete the backup. The backup disk image "/Volumes/Old Time Capsule name/My laptop name.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error -1)."
I don't know how to fix this. I have looked everywhere. I deleted the NetworkInterfaces.plist file in Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration, and even made sure to do a secure empty trash. I even did a soft reset of the Time Capsule to the factory configuration, and renamed the Time Capsule all over again. I restarted the computer several times during this process, and yet no luck, it still shows the old Time Capsule name.
Does anybody know how to fix this? Thank you!

Ok, the MacBook is backing up now. Here is what I did:
After manually changing the name of the Time Capsule Disk as above, Time Machine was still not able to back up. I kept getting the error message
"Time Machine could not complete the backup. The backup disk image "/Volumes/Old Time Capsule name/My laptop name.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error -1)."
The problem is that "My laptop name" Time Machine was using is wrong. I had changed the laptop name in Network Perferences>Sharing before, but it still kept looking for the wrong .sparsebundle file in the Time Capsule. I don't know why, and I even deleted the NetworkInterfaces.plist file again with no success.
I entered the Time Capsule from the Finder menu, found the .sparsebundle file with the wrong name, and manually deleted it. Finally the MacBook was able to backup. However, although the MacBook name is the same as it used to be before, and even though there was already an old .sparsebundle file with the correct name, Time Machine created a new .sparesebundle with the same name, and began an entirely new backup. I am just letting it do this backup, and then I will manually delete the old backup, so it doesn't take space on the Time Capsule. I don't need the past backups (and hope I won't swallow my words), and I am tired of dealing with this, so this will be it.

Problem using file sharing and screen sharing in Leopard

I have Mac OS 10.5 Leopard installed on 4 computers in a Home Network and have a problem with sharing files and using screen sharing. Here is my setup.
MacBook Pro with my logon ID
MacBook Pro with my fiancee's logon ID
Mac Mini with both of our logon ID's
Mac Pro with both of our logon ID's
The problem I have is I am able to access the Mac Mini computer where we have an external Hard Drive connected for data. She is also able to access it. The only problem is we have it set up to only share this external USB drive. Yet for both of us it shares the external drive along with the internal Macintosh HD. Fortunately this is not a very big deal but since I'm not sharing all those drives why is it doing this?
Also, I am able to connect from the Mac Mini for example to my MBP and vice versa for screen sharing along with file sharing. Yet if she tries to connect to the Mac Pro from her MBP and vice versa it won't. It simply times out and will never connect for screen sharing or file sharing but yet the Finder shows the Mac Pro. We have a 2nd hard drive in the Mac Pro which is the one set up for file sharing. I am also unable to connect to the Mac Pro's HD. Everything appears to be set up correctly. For my MBP on the Finder it shows the Mac Pro but once again I am unable to connect to it for screen sharing or file sharing.
Also, not sure if it's related but even for her MBP she is unable to connect to it from any other computer in our network although it's set up for file sharing and screen sharing so I'm not sure if it's related to her logon ID. Then again as mentioned above neither of us can connect to the Mac Pro.
I tried to make the above sound as simple as possible. I am relatively new to networking and of course Leopard but even on the Mac Pro all settings sound the same as on the Mac Mini where we can both connect to. The only big difference is on the Mini we are connect to a USB external drive, on the Mac Pro an internal drive. Is there something I could have overlooked or are there known issues with Leopard's sharing features?
We both have .mac but since we are using this on an internal network (some wi-fi, some wired, all through an Airport Base Station Extreme) I would think this has nothing to do with Back to my Mac.
I appreciate any help with the above.

FaceTime doesn't do any of that, so I'll assume you mean Messages.
From the Messages menu bar, select
Video ▹ Connection Doctor
In the window that opens, select
Show: Capabilities
There should be a checkmark on the line with the words "1-on-1 video chat." Select
Show: Network Status
You should have two green dots.
Make sure that you and the other party meet the applicable requirements shown in these support articles:
Share your screen
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