Access to content on an
Apple Time Capsule under the
GNOME Desktop Environment is easy. From the
GNOME Panel's main menu bar, navigate to Places > Network. From here, users instantaneously have access to all the content on the Time Capsule and any attached storage devices as long as long as
Samba is properly
up and running. There is one caveat, however: there is no write access by default.
If one wants to have write access and has already connected to the share with
Nautilus, unmount or "eject" it. Then, run
sudo mount.cifs //10.0.1.1/"My Book" /mnt/tc -o pass=$tr0ngP@55w0rd from the command-line, where
10.0.1.1 is the IP address of the Time Capsule,
My Book is the name of a drive connected to the Time Capsule,
/mnt/tc is an empty directory designated for use as the
mount point, and
$tr0ngP@55w0rd is the Time Capsule base station password. If all goes well, a connection to the drive should be established with both read and write access. This is all fine and dandy if one wants temporary access to the Time Capsule, but for a more permanent
mount, one must edit
fstab.
The
fstab configuration file sets mount points for the system at boot time and is located at
/etc/fstab. To set a longer lasting mount point for the Time Capsule, open
fstab using a text editor and append the following line:
//10.0.1.1/My\040Book/Share /mnt/tc cifs password=$tr0ngP@55w0rd
The string fragment "\040" is used in this line to designate that a character space is being used. Everything else should be self-explanatory.
If all goes well, a permanent read/write solution has been established from a GNU/Linux system to an Apple Time Capsule. Many thanks goes to
Ubuntu Forums and
Linux Forums for all the help.
Now with this solution and
PS3 Media Server, my home computer network has become a little more connected.
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