Hi! I’m trying to mount my Apple AirPort Time Capsule inside the Umbrel Files app, but I can’t get it to show up. I can see it on the network, but the authentication always fails. Has anyone managed to make a Time Capsule appear as a device in Umbrel Files?
hey, this looks like a protocol mismatch rather than bad credentials. Stock AirPort Time Capsules only support AFP and SMB1, while Umbrel Files uses modern SMB defaults and doesn’t have an option to enable legacy SMB1. It can still discover the Time Capsule over Bonjour, which is why it appears in the list, but the connection fails at the next step.
As far as I can tell, there isn’t a way to add a stock Time Capsule directly to Files right now. One possible workaround is TimeCapsuleSMB, which installs a modern SMB3 server on the Time Capsule. After that, it should work with admin as the username and the Time Capsule device password. I haven’t tested that with Umbrel myself, though, and it modifies the device, so I’d back up anything important first.
Otherwise, the disk would need to be re-shared through another computer or NAS using SMB2/3.