Hi Scott,
SH: What should I type in to the connect to server box?
TK: I use the IP address of the Time Capsule. If yor TC is giving
out the IP Addresses then it will be 10.0.1.1 or 172.16.1.1 or
192.168.1.1 depending on how you set it up. You can tell this by
either looking in the DHCP tab of the Internet section of Airport
Utility or simply looking in the Advanced pane of your Network System
Preferences to see what kind of IP address your computer has and the
address of the router. After entering the IP, then you can type in
the username and password.
SH: Not sure if it really makes any difference as far as security
using a general password verses the account method. There's not a
lot of documentation on either method.
TK: The security there would be between sets of data. With the
general disk password, all users have access to all the data on the TC
whereas when setting it up with Accounts, the data of one user is not
normally accessible to another user. This has its advantages and
disadvantages. When in accounts, your data can't be deleted by
another user although you need to play more with permissions if you
wish to use the TC to share files between users. I haven't bothered
putting the Account level of security as I trust everyone in my house
not to do anything stupid with the data on the TC. In fact, most of
them don't even use it.
A few other things to note:
• If you changed the disk security after there was already data on the
TC, you can cause disk access issues.
• There is a Software Update that came out yesterday or the day before
for the TC and Time Machine plus a firmware update for the TC as well.
Let me know if you're still having problems.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
& Carter the Canine
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
