Using TC as attached HD only

Changes to my household make a wireless TC unnecessary and the router function unused. Can I attach the TC directly to my iMac and just use it as a HD?

Yes, although it is worth consideration of external drive which is faster, better to setup, easier to maintain and more reliable. Much faster if your iMac is new and you can buy usb3 or thunderbolt.
You cannot connect via usb.. to TC.
Details on setting up TC as separate network.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4817218?tstart=30
Near the bottom of the page I did a whole lot of screen shots to make the setup easier.
Just ask if anything is unclear.

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1.     Do I understand that the design of the TC is such that it cannot be used as an attached ethernet hard drive for Time Machine backups unless it is at all times also connected to a [Airport Extreme] router?
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If you have an Ethernet cable connected to the iMac, the iMac will default to the Ethernet connection, even if wireless is on at the iMac.So, if you want to backup the iMac over wireless, you will have to manually disconnect the Internet Ethernet cable at the iMac every time that you want to back up the iMac. Once the backup over wireless is completed, then you will have to connect the Internet Ethernet cable again to the iMac.
Is this true? I was referring to the ethernet cable running between the iMac and the TC, not the main ethernet connection to my home network. My entire goal here has been to simply hookup the TC to the iMac solely for backup purposes via ethernet. However, you have convinced my I cannot do that without the TC also being connected to the Airport router at the same time., which I believe is not practical for the reasons below. So again, assuming that the iMac is connected to the TC via the TC's separate wireless network, is not the ethernet cable between iMac and TC not used - or will the iMac communicate to the TC via faster ethernet instead of defaulting to the slower wireless network?
The iMac is about 12" away from the iMac and I am not trying to hide it - I just want to use it as a ethernet backup disk!
I guess I'm wondering why.....if the Mac connects to the AirPort Extreme using Ethernet.....you cannot connect the Ethernet cable from the AirPort Extreme to the Time Capsule first, then connect another Ethernet cable from the Time Capsule to your iMac.
Then, the iMac is always connected using Ethernet, and you won't have to use wireless at all. You can backup over the much faster Ethernet connection. Everything will stay connected all the time.....no cable disconnecting.....and you have the best performance as well.
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But, again....If the TC and iMac will be close to each other....why mess with wireless and cable swapping when you can do everything over Ethernet, and always stay connected to the AirPort Extreme network.
You are preaching to the choir. I don't want to use wireless at all for backup or even have it on for my iMac. The lack of a connection between TC and Airport router is what seems to be stopping me.
The TC will create both a 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz network automatically. The iMac will look at both signals and choose the best with which to connect. If the iMac has line-of-sight, or is in the same room as the TC, then it will likely connect at the faster 5 GHz connection.
And here is the last puzzle. Assuming that I cannot resolve the ethernet to router issue, I am today backing up to the TC (also connected via ethernet cable to iMac) via the separate WiFi network created by the TC. The backup has worked several times today. Despite this, Airport Utility reports that the TC cannot be found even though it was "previously part of the network." Any ideas on that one?
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2. My initial setup showe various errors so I hooked the TC into the modem via the WAN port and then I was able to set up (WIFI off, Bridge Mode OFF) and those errors went away.
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You are setting up the TC in the wrong mode.. it has to be in Router mode.. Not Bridge..
You are worrying too much about the flashing amber.. it is irrelevant. You can select ignore and it will go green.
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1. Factory reset the TC.
Just to get started from a clean setup. And that will put the TC in the correct mode.. ie dhcp and nat.
2. Plug it by ethernet LAN TC to computer. On the computer no other connection.. turn off wireless.
3. Just change the name of the TC to something short as it helps.. eg TCGen5
And turn the wireless off.
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4. Now setup TM.. I would also start clean.. do a fresh TM setup .. see A4 here.
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6. Once you complete the first backup, later ones should be fine.. but do not expect them to work as well as when you do it hourly.. it does need to do a lot more work to figure out where the TM backup is up to.
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