I'm sorry, I read almost all of this below my comment, but I have to ask this cause I'm buyin this for my job, and I don't want to make a mistake.
I have a store with 3 iMac's with Airports class N.
I want to buy a TC and use it as a "server", but, mine is a Photo Shop, so, we take around 1000 pictures everyday, around 8GB, and I would like to store this amount of photos in the TC trough Adobe Ligrtroom and use them trough the wireless network.
Can this be done ? Would it be better to buy a regular WD External HD ?
The original author states that Apple should make connecting to time capsule via Ethernet more plain, while I agree - I found a way to connect it up and use it as a time machine backup device (and browse).
I ran an nmap against the device and found that it is listening on port 548/TCP which is the afp protocol port - which provided a great hint.
To be clear, these are the steps to connect the device on a LAN, not a direct connect to a Mac - which seems to be trivial.
1) Connect the TC device up to your LAN, provide it with a good LAN (Ethernet) IP address (or utilize DHCP).
2) Once you know the IP address (you can find this under the airport utility), write it down for future reference.
3) Turn on Bonjour (from Airport Utility / Time Capsule) on the TC device, click EDIT on the same screen and provide a hostname, username and password.
4) Open Safari and type the following URL: afp://<TC IP ADDR>
Once you press enter, it should request for the username and password that you entered in step 3.
After that, my TC device showed up in Time Machine and it is backing up right now.
I am not completely sure that Bonjour needs to be turned on, but I have not had time to test it with the setting turned off.
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I have a store with 3 iMac's with Airports class N.
I want to buy a TC and use it as a "server", but, mine is a Photo Shop, so, we take around 1000 pictures everyday, around 8GB, and I would like to store this amount of photos in the TC trough Adobe Ligrtroom and use them trough the wireless network.
Can this be done ? Would it be better to buy a regular WD External HD ?
Thanks.
I ran an nmap against the device and found that it is listening on port 548/TCP which is the afp protocol port - which provided a great hint.
To be clear, these are the steps to connect the device on a LAN, not a direct connect to a Mac - which seems to be trivial.
1) Connect the TC device up to your LAN, provide it with a good LAN (Ethernet) IP address (or utilize DHCP).
2) Once you know the IP address (you can find this under the airport utility), write it down for future reference.
3) Turn on Bonjour (from Airport Utility / Time Capsule) on the TC device, click EDIT on the same screen and provide a hostname, username and password.
4) Open Safari and type the following URL: afp://<TC IP ADDR>
Once you press enter, it should request for the username and password that you entered in step 3.
After that, my TC device showed up in Time Machine and it is backing up right now.
I am not completely sure that Bonjour needs to be turned on, but I have not had time to test it with the setting turned off.
I hope that helps.
John