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Hi,
I would like to access the hard drive of my 2015-model time capsule 3TB from a windows 8 laptop. I've seen different ways on older windows and time capsules, but I thought that there might be an easy (easier?) way nowadays?
Thanks - Mikael
Entering the IP address of your Time Capsule is about as as easy as it gets.
Open Windows Explorer
Type in the following.....
\\TimeCapsuleIPAddress
So, for example if the IP address of your Time Capsule is 192.168.1.10, you would type in \\192.168.1.10 and press Enter
Entering the IP address of your Time Capsule is about as as easy as it gets.
Open Windows Explorer
Type in the following.....
\\TimeCapsuleIPAddress
So, for example if the IP address of your Time Capsule is 192.168.1.10, you would type in \\192.168.1.10 and press Enter
Yes, of course 🙂 , thanks Bob.
But I was thinking of more file system issues, or perhaps that is a thing of the past? There is no problem for windows to handle filesystem in the Time Capsule?
To windows the Time Capsule disk is NT server.. which uses FAT32.. there is the usual 4GB issue.. which is purely windows. The disk is NOT formatted FAT32 and can handle files up to the size of the disk.. However windows is unable to gain that value from it.
Still if you use a standard backup software in windows it will happily work with FAT32 over network.. and simply split the backup into 4GB segments.
Well, actually, the correct way of doing this is to connect the Time Capsule by
\\ip-adress\shared-drive-name
which normally is something like
\\10.0.1.1\data
Then Windows will prompt you to log on. The user name is irrelevant, but you must write something there. Anything. It doesn't matter what. The password is your wireless network password.
Have a look at http://wpguru.co.uk/2014/09/what-are-the-credentials-to-your-airport-time-capsul e/ for more info.
Access Time Capsule 3TB hard drive from windows 8
