Ubuntu 14.04 - How to connect to Apple's Time Capsule?

Question

I have this http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z287/dguyse/IMG_0108.jpg in my living room. It's connected to my router and I connect to it (because it has greater WiFi range than my internet provider's crap of a router) to go to internet. The Time Capsule also has 2TB drive in it, so it's a nice storage location. There is Airport Utility that can be downloaded for Mac to connect to that storage and its settings. There is also an Airport Utility software for Windows that can do the same. For Linux (Ubuntu), there is no such software, at least not to my knowledge. There ARE ways to connect to it, but those methods work only for earlier Ubuntu distros.

Is there a way for me to connect to that Time Capsule's storage on Ubuntu 14.04?

Thank you very much.

Solution

Make sure you have mount.cifs

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

I had a hard time with this too until I hit on this

http://blog.martinshouse.com/2014/09/mounting-apple-time-capsule-share-from.html

In short, I added this line to my /etc/fstab file

//10.0.1.1/Data /media/timecapsule  cifs    password=<timecap pw>,uid=1000,sec=ntlm,user    0 0

10.0.1.1 is your TC IP address. uid is your user id to set the permissions and user allows you to mount it without being root. Then from a terminal you can "mount /media/timecapsule" and it will work.

Comments

[Mat7]

A year later, thanks! It worked! I didn't respond earlier because I've given up on Linux at that time. Until now!

[Admin]

cool - glad it helped! If you are using a graphical desktop in 15.10 you can go to File -> Connect to Server while in the file manager. This might also work in 14.04 but I can't test that.