Time Capsule and Remote Access?

set up file sharing over wan in airport utility and use the ip address of the TC shown within airport itulity.

under the Finder use the GO function. Assuming you are connected to the internet then type in the GO window afp://ip dress found for the TC under airport utility. You must set the preferences for the disk for others to see. For example I don't allow guests and my kids must type in the TC disk password to access it over the wan. One child is 50 miles away and the other 35 .

Are you sure you are using the external IP of your router? You can easily find this by going to a site such as www.whatismyip.com. You should be able to enter that IP after "afp://" in the Server Address field and hit Connect to get to your shared disk on the Time Capsule.

You have file sharing and advertise disks globally via bonjour enabled?

sam, I'm sorry, don't enable bonjour, that's for something else. Just make sure you have enabled file sharing over the WAN port. Also, is the Time Capsule acting as your internet gateway (is it responsible for assigning IP numbers for your local network) or do you have a main gateway and the Time Capsule is just running in bridged mode?

Ok, so 2 things are needed for this to work.

1. You can't use the IP address listed in AirPort Utility. Since your Time Capsule is running in bridged mode the IP address listed is its private address, which won't be seen when you are not on your private network. To see your actual public IP address you can log into your main router and look for the IP address or you can go to www.showmyip.com and the number at the very top left is your actual public IP address.
2. You need to make sure the TCP port 548 is being forwarded to the IP address listed under AirPort Utility (your Time Capsule's private IP address). This means that when you try to connect to your Time Capsule via afp://youripaddresshere instead of your main router blocking your request it will automatically forward it to your Time Capsule. You can enable port forwarding by accessing the web setup application of your main router.

Nachos, have the same setup with my Airport Express acting as bridge with my Fios Router and my TC connected to AEX to extend the network cause my transmit rates are right at 270 which is where I need them along with my ATV. I too am trying to be able to access my TC away from home and have my internal ip etc. What i dont know how to do is to set that up. I know how to log into my main router etc. What do you mean by TCP port 548 and where to I find that at because I can not find it any where in Airport Utility. Thanks for any help you can provide for me. Also, would enable MAC Access help with anything on the TC or my Fios Router?

Nachos, have the same setup with my Airport Express acting as bridge with my Fios Router and my TC connected to AEX to extend the network cause my transmit rates are right at 270 which is where I need them along with my ATV. I too am trying to be able to access my TC away from home and have my internal ip etc. What i dont know how to do is to set that up. I know how to log into my main router etc. What do you mean by TCP port 548 and where to I find that at because I can not find it any where in Airport Utility. Thanks for any help you can provide for me. Also, would enable MAC Access help with anything on the TC or my Fios Router?

So you are saying your Airport Express and Time Capsule are both in bridged mode, correct? If so, there isn't an option to port forward TCP port 548 because all the ports on both the Airport Express and Time Capsule are automatically forwarded when in bridged mode (Apple actually uses something called NAT-PMP which is a dynamic port forwarding feature). What you have to do is access your Fios router's setup utility (I don't have experience this router) and forward the TCP port 548 to the private ip address of your Time Capsule listed in AirPort Utility.

What is TCP? I am in the port forwarding settings of my router and chose my time Capsule. Then it asks me which protocol I want to use and TCP is not in there. They have L2TP, FTP, HTTP etc. Once I choose one of those options it will let me keep the same port or specify the port to where I want. I'm just not sure. Any more thoughts on what these protocols are for before i breakdown and call Verizon for this help. Thank you

Those are built-in settings for certain ports. If you select FTP it should have port 20 listed, HTTP is port 80, etc. You are in the area you need to be. Just select one of those or a custom selection if there is one because I'm sure it doesn't have an option for Apple File Sharing or AFP. Insert 548 for the public and private ports, and if there is a selection for protocal make sure that TCP or both TCP/UDP are selected.