Use Time Capsule as storage/scan location from a Toshiba Network Scanner

We have a Time Capsule set up in our office and I have a network share on it that I would like to set up as the location for scans to go to from our Toshiba Networked Scanner/Printer.
I don't know what I am doing wrong but it isn't working.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Is the TC setup with SMB names.. because I am pretty sure the Tosiba won't talk AFP.
SMB names are short, no spaces, pure alphanumeric. Apple names.. have spaces and horrible characters like the apostrophe.
Did you set a windows workgroup in the file sharing area?
Also it can help to turn on guest account to give read and write access. See if those fix it.

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