I want to configure my wife's vista laptop to access an external drive attached to my Apple time capsule.
I have connected an external drive to my apple time capsule. It is formatted as Mac OS extended journalled.
On the timecapsule: I have configured to secure shared disks with accounts and have set her user name and password. I have "enable file sharing" checked. Work group is set to "WORKGROUP". WINS server is empty.
I am a noob on windows. What do I do on her vista machine to make the drive appear? I have clicked on about everything I can think of to find it; it does not appear.
Also, any recommendations for backup software for her vista machine? something that works like time machine would be great.
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I just got off an extended phone call with Apple support.
This is what I learned:
I had to install airport utility for windows on my wife's vista machine. They could not give a satisfactory explanation as to why that was necessary; only that others were successfully solving this problem by installing airport utility. (bad)
My external harddrive is formatted as "Mac OS extended journalled" and successfully seen by vista. (good)
My setting of my tc remains: Secure shared disks with time capsule password so I have to put the tc password on my wife's vista box. (bad)
It is useless to change the security setting to "with disk password" because both the internal disk and external disk have to share the same password. This would still allow my wife's vista box to access the internal drive. (bad) I confirmed this with experimentation. In other words, you can pick "with disk password", but you only get one password no matter how many disks you have.
According to the apple guy Changing the security setting to "with accounts" is useless because it only controls whether a particular user can read or write to ANY disk. That is if I enable a user as rw they will be able to rw the internal disk. (bad) I did not confirm this because changing from "with tc password" to "with accounts" breaks time machine. I am not sure if I had started out with "with accounts" if time machine would have been okay. This is so absurd I do not believe it, but I am not willing to take the time to confirm it myself.
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by: nappy_dPosted on 2009-03-02 at 03:44:57ID: 23773220
WIndows cannot access MAC OS extended journaled file systems.