Thank you very much for the reply.

What would be the name of that password ?
It's probably in keychain, right ?
Could it be on a different machine that backs up to that TC ?

Jean-Christophe 

> On Mar 31, 2022, at 5:57, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It appears that everything in this message boils down to one issue: "I don't 
> know the administrative password to my Time Capsule."
> 
> The only thing I can suggest in this case is to look for a repository that 
> may still have a cached copy of it from further back in time, such as an old 
> Mac you haven't used in a while, or an iPhone. Otherwise, you will need to do 
> the hardware reset to get access back, which I believe erases all your 
> backups.
> 
>> On Mar 30, 2022, at 5:17 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I had to change of wifi router to use ipv6 and now something weird is 
>> happening...
>> 
>> I only have 2 passwords in KeyChain related to the TC:
>> - [name of TC]._afpovertcp._tcp.local.
>> → that one is also used to connect the TC in Finder, and it works
>> 
>> - Time Machine
>> 
>> Through Ethernet, TC backups seem to work without asking for a PW.
>> 
>> Now, when I try to access my TC in AirPort Utility directly through 
>> Ethernet, I click on the TC and for some reason (never happened before as 
>> far as I remember) it asks for a password.
>> 
>> And, regardless of the pw I enter, none works.
>> 
>> I seem to need to access my TC through APU to change its settings because I 
>> still want to use it as a TC for backups, but not with Ethernet (we have a 
>> number of machines that back up there).
>> 
>> https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/256405/is-it-possible-to-use-an-apple-time-capsule-just-as-a-network-attached-backup-dr#265394
>> 
>> I have no idea how to solve that.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jean-Christophe Helary @brandelune
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