Time Capsule settings for Windows vista Guest

I just recently set up my TC (AirPort 7.4.2) for wireless access for my MBP. I have guests from out of town who have laptops running Windows Vista. I've set up a Guest Network but they're unable to connect. Are there specifics steps that need to be taken in order for Windows Vista to be able to access the network? Any help would be very much appreciated! Thanks.

Ooops! My house guest was mistyping the password! All is working well.

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Does time capsule work for windows

Will Time Capsule work on Windows computers?

Yes. It's just a network drive to Windoze. Once you find it browsing the network (assuming you named the worksapces riht, etc.), it will pop up on the list of network drives, and from there you can assign a drive letter to it and keep it auto-mounted.
However, with windoze 7 home, their new built-in 'backup' won't touch it, or use it in any way, because Micro$uck considers backup to network attached storage a 'premium feature' that mere home users shouldn't have access to.
However, any other backup software that isn't ******** will copy to the drive, if you assign a drive letter to it. Including 'xcopy /h /e /r /d /i /c /k /y D:\mystuff Z:\backup', assuming you mounted the Time Capsule as 'Z'.

HT3446 Time Capsule Accounts for Windows 7

I have 2 windows computers and 2 Macs connected to a Time Capsule used as a Hard Drive for a small office. I tried to make accounts but I don´t know how to configure them to be accessed by the windows OS. Is it possible?

Should be possible..
DId you load Bonjour for Windows or the full airport utility for windows onto the Win computers?
If so ping the TC.. can you reach it? It could be blocked by firewall or the windows is in work or public network instead of home.
Once you can ping the TC.. try to open it from explorer..
\\TCname or \\TCIPaddress
Note windows uses SMB protocol not AFP.. Apple use names that are illegal for SMB.. even though SMB is offered.. make sure TC and wireless names are short, no spaces pure alphanumeric. Use WPA2 Personal security only with pure alphanumeric passkey.
Setup disk access for WORKGROUP as the workgroup.
Accounts can be a big issue.. if the above don't work, I usually just recommend turning on the guest account with read and write access.
Otherwise I think you will need to look up how to change security in windows handling of passwords.. as the two may not match. Latest firmware for this on the TC might help.

Time Capsule Drive and Windows Vista

Hi,
I am trying to connect a Windows Vista PC to my Time Capsule. I installed the Airport Configuration Utility and it works fine. I can configure,... the Time Capsule in Windows.
But I am not able to "mount" the drive. A little window appers, asking me to log in to mount the drive. But after entering the password nothing happens.
The drive does not show up in "Computer" and "Network"
Thanks

With AirPort Utility for Windows open, did you already enable file sharing? Via manual setup, it's under the Disks -> File Sharing Enabled. You can select your Time Capsule password, which is set under your AirPort menu under the Time Capsule heading.

How do I connect Airport Time Capsule to a Windows Vista Machine?

I was going NUTS trying connect my new Airport Time Capsule v6.xxx to an older Vista Home machine. I searched these posts for an answer and found nothing remotely helpful. After trying a million different things...
Here is how I did it:
Open Airport Utility
Finder>Applications>Utilities>Airport Utility
Click on the image of the Airport Time capsule
Go to top of screen menu Click on EDIT in the little dialog box that pops up once you click EDIT look to the top of the screen and click on BASE STATION
Click on SHOW PASSWORDS, Carefully note the really long WPA Pre Shared Key code for "xxxx"
Go to your Vista machine and down at the bottom you will see you network connection icon. It looks like two computer monitors and a globe. Click once on it and open NETWORK and SHARING CENTER
Click once on SET UP A NETWORK CONNECTION > NEXT > WIRELESS> SET UP CONNECTION OR NETWORK> MANUALLY CONNECT TO A WIRELESS NETWORK>NEXT
Now enter the network name as you set it up in the Airport Utility and then enter the 64 digit WPA PRE SHARED KEY CODE in the SECURITY KEY/PASSPHRASE box
Click NEXT...Your Vista machine should say searching for IP address then it should connect to the Airport. I hope this saves someone the hours I spent messing with this. Good Luck!!!

I just want to extend the system with the time capsule.
Always worries me when I see that..
Do you mean wirelessly extend.. it won't work.. not just because the WRT54GS is G wireless (super G is just extended G)... but because it is not apple router.. apple can only extend wireless between routers that are apple.
You can plug the TC into the linksys via ethernet.. and run it as an AP .. use the same wireless name.. ie ssid and security but use and lock a different wireless channel.. that is better by far as it is then N wireless. you can also set 5ghz to a different name and use that for 5ghz capable stuff.
You can use EOP adapters if you cannot run ethernet but doing it via wireless.. is really not worth it.
Why don't you put the TC in place of the WRT.. and load dd-wrt on the Linksys and use that in universal repeater mode.. that would work.

Time capsule settings for ADSL

Hello
no doubt you get this alot, but here goes....
Im in Australia with an iMac (2005) plus a Time Capsule with a speedstream 4200 modem(optusnet) in bridge mode plugged inline.
I have set up the modem prior with settings from my new and current supplier (Dodo) and the speedstream works fine as a standard ADSL modem. I then reset the modem to full bridge mode, so that I can relocate the ADSL settings to the Time Capsule to act as the modem/router. it's this step Im having trouble with. I know it can be done as I've previously done it with Optusnet at another location.
Dodo say that the only setting I should need to put into a modem is:
VPI 8
VCI 35
[email protected]
PPPoe
I cannot find how/where to put the info in, or if im putting it in the right place.
Please help?

Nope but are you using Mountain Lion and the toyland utility provided therein??
Load 5.6.
How to load 5.6 into ML.
1. Download 5.6 for Lion.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Click to open the dmg but do not attempt to install the pkg.. it won't work anyway.
2. Download and install unpkg.
http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/
Run unpkg on the desktop.. it is very simple.. drag the AirPortUtility56.pkg file over to unpkg.. and it will create a new directory of the same name on the desktop.. drill down.. applications utilities .. there lo and behold is Airport utility 5.6 .. drag it to your main utilities directory or just run it from current location.
You cannot uninstall 6.1 so don't try.. and you cannot or should not run them both at the same time.. so just ignore the toyland version.. the plastic hammer.. and start using 5.6.. a real tool.
Go to the internet page of the airport utility and choose pppoe client.

How can I add a shared printer USB plugged to the Time Capsule (on a windows vista PC)

Setting up an airport network was very easy, and is very intuitive and friendly working on a mac. However, I tried to install the shared printer remotely on a windows vista PC and... well, that's a diffrent story. Can anybody help? Thanks!

If you have not already done so, you will need to download, install and run Bonjour for Windows on the PC.
If you have already done this, what error messages are you receiving?
http://support.apple.com/kb/dl999

Hi. I am using a time capsule for few PC s. I have made 5 different account to access time capsule. but in windows when i enter account name and password for one account, i cannot access other accounts, because windows saves username

Hi. I am using a time capsule for few PC s. I have made 5 different account to access time capsule. but in windows when I enter account name and password for one account, i cannot access other accounts, because windows saves username. how can i prevent this from happenning. I really need to access all my accounts and dont want it to save automaticlly.

Why have 5 accounts if you need to access all of them.. just have one account?
Sorry I cannot follow why you would even use the PC to control the Time Capsule. Apple have not kept the Windows version of the utility up to date.. so they keep making it harder and harder to run windows with apple routers.

HT1175 I am trying to setup my Time capsule via a ethernet cable as a back up for a new iMac. The on button on the time capsule set up window keeps failing to stay on. Any ideas what to do?

I am trying to setup my Time capsule via a ethernet cable as a back up for a new iMac. The on button on the time capsule set up window keeps failing to stay on. Any ideas what to do?

A PC can have more issues connecting than a Mac.
But it really should not matter.. so just try it in situ.. press and hold the reset.. once it starts up, it will return to default IP, 10.0.1.1 the PC should then be able to find it via the airport utility.
If not drag it over to the Mac and plug in there by ethernet.. or since it is a laptop, really should not be that difficult to drag the Laptop and plug it into the TC.
Important thing is to get access to the TC.
The Mac if it is running lion, then you MUST download and install 5.6 airport utility to do anything useful.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482

Which quick time should I be using for windows vista?

which quick time should I be using for windows vista? when I look at the plugins I'm using for Google Chrome Browser there are several listed for Quick Time, do I need them all?

when I look at the plugins I'm using for Google Chrome Browser there are several listed for Quick Time, do I need them all?
Yes. The seven different plugin dlls (npqtplugin.dll, ntqtplugin2.dll, etc) each handle various different file formats.

Is it possible to share a disk on airport extreme for both Time Capsule use and Windows use

Hello
I was hoping to add some better backup capacity to our home. Can I use the same disk attacheded to the USB port of an Airport Extreme for Time Capsule use for our Macbooks, as well as general use by the windows laptops> If not is it possible to add multiple disks to the Airport Extreme and designate one for Mac Laptops, and the other for Windows use.
Regards
Ted

Regardless of the client's OS, you can use the AirPort Disk (USB HDD attached to the AirPort Extreme's USB) port as a 'NAS' device. You also have the option of partitioning it if you actually want separate volumes to be used between Mac or Windows clients. I would recommend partitioning it for Mac OS Extended (Journaled) which would also format it for HFS+. Normally HFS+ volumes are not readable (natively) by Windows, but the Extreme's File Server will share this drive out with both AFP (for Macs) and SMB (for Windows/Linux) clients.
However, one note of caution. Do NOT use this AirPort Disk for Time Machine backups as this is NOT supported by Apple. Although a number of users have done so, a number of them also post here complaining of corrupted backups.

After restoration of files via time capsule my status changed to "Guest" and I can't find the pass word for changing it back to Registered user. Any Help?

after restoration of files via time capsule my status changed to "Guest" and I can't find the pass word for changing it back to Registered user. Any Help?

Hey mate I had this same problem exept instead of my recording disappearing my Chorus that went for 8 bars extended out to 20 bars lol and I used auto tune on it and it sounds like t-pain on a very bad day so it sounds like it does a few things when it comes up that error

TS2706 I cannot connect to my airport (time capsule) from a Windows PC

Any information on how to connect to an aiport extreme (really the time capsule) from a Windows platform. Have no problem from our Mac's but cannot connect from a windows based platform. I haven't been able to find any recent posts to help with this problem.

First off, Archon23, what you want to achieve is possible. I have access to both my Time Capsule (TC) and the USB drive connected to it, from a Win. 7 and Win. XP machine.
Here is what I see from the Windows side of things:
     From My Computer - TC USB Drive (Y)
     From Windows HomeNet - Time Capsule:
Now getting there is the trick.
One caveat before proceeding: I am not well versed in Windows Networks, Windows Sharing and Firewall settings so some of the following may not be elegant, may not be absolutely required, and may not be the best way of getting there. But it is what I did to see both the TC drive and it's attached USB drive on the Windows side of my network..
1.) First, I added Airport Utility to the Inbound rules of Win 7 Firewall
While poking around my Network Sharing and Firewall settings trying to figure this out, I got a Pop-up recommending I do that. AND I did that. Oh, and while you are at it, make sure you have a Home network established.
2.) Next, on a hunch, I installed a USB Wi-Fi Adapter (under $20) to my Win PC, enabled that Wi-Fi connection and disabled my Ethernet connection. I was getting no where on this matter with my Ethernet connection to a DSL Gateway. But with a Wi-Fi connection to my AirPort Express Base Station, I made progress.
3.) Finally, while poking around my Network Sharing Center some more, one by one I started the various network device Setup Wizards in there, and Trouble Shooters, to find the elusive TC/USB devices in question...AND voila, it worked.   And it's stable, been this way for going on two weeks now.
Good luck.

Where can i find the icoud control panel for windows vista

I need to back up my iphone and cannot find the software for the icloud control panel for windows vista --- only for windows 7 and 8.
Where can I find this as Ineed to back upp my phone before an appointment tomorrow to replace my battery.
Thanks for your help

Here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1687.
If you're trying to back up your phone to iCloud, you don't do this on your computer. You have to do it using wifi. First go to Settings>iCloud, sign in with your Apple ID to create your account, tap Storage & Backup and turn iCloud Backup on at the bottom. Then, to manually start a backup right away, tap Back Up Now at the bottom. Connect it to your charger as the first backup will take some time to complete. (Subsequent backups will be much faster as they only back up changed files.)
After that, just connect it to wifi and your charger and lock the screen when you go to bed at night. It will automatically back up daily.

Problem accessing Time Capsule settings after firmware 7.3.1 upgrade

I understand there are similar posts, but none provide a solution to my problem:
I bought a brand new Time Capsule and set it up. Everything worked fine and I could access it using AirPort Utility. After the initial setup I immediately upgraded the firmware from version 7.3 to 7.3.1. Now, when I try to access or change the settings, AirPort Utility first reports that it is "Reading the Time Capsule configuration...", and after about 2 minutes I get the message
"An error occurred while reading the configuration. -- Please make sure your Apple wireless device is plugged in and in range of your computer or connected via Ethernet and try again. (-6753)"
I performed a hard reset and could then access the settings again for another setup. At the end of the setup, AirPort Utility reports that it's "Writing the Time Capsule configuration...", and after about 2 minutes
"An error occurred while updating the configuration. -- Please make sure your Apple wireless device is plugged in and in range of your computer or connected via Ethernet and try again. (-6722)"
I also tried to access the settings using a direct Ethernet connection to my iMac, but to no avail.
Now, even though I can't access the Time Capsule settings, which is annoying, the device seems to be working: it creates a wireless network and I can access the Time Capsule hard drive.
Any solutions to this problem? Is it possible to revert to firmware version 7.3? Or do I need to wait for a firmware upgrade?

Great, thank you! Looks like this solved my problem.
I performed the reset, and then restored firmware version 7.3 using your great advice to *press the option key when clicking "Check for Updates"*.
I then used the setup dialog, put it my info and passwords, restart... oops, once again, I can't access the settings, even though I'm using firmware 7.3 which used to work when I first set up Time Capsule when it was fresh out of the box.
Reset, do the same thing again, still can't access settings and can't upgrade the firmware.
Reset, *first thing upgrade the firmware to 7.3.1*. I put in my info again, and finally, everything works.
One note: I'm not sure if that matters, but in the last step, I set up Time Capsule using the window that you get when you click the Time Capsule icon in the AirPort Utility. Previously, I would click "Continue" in the AirPort Utility for the assisted setup. This might not matter, but I want to mention it anyways in case it helps replicate this solution.

Time Capsule settings for Windows vista Guest

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