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I have set up my own domain at DynDNS and follow there instructions on setting up a Custom DNS for it so it can be used with my Time Capsule. I want to be able to access my internal drive as well as my USB attached drive. After I got it all setup I tried connecting to it from work from my coworkers Mac using Go To Server 'timecapsulename.myhostname.com' and bingo up came the two volumes and I could connect to them. I installed Bonjour for windows on my PC and I can see printers using Safari when Bonjour is selected, so it's running. I try to connect to my drives with explore with \timecapsulename.myhostname.com with no luck. I tried putting my http://myhostname.com in the DNS search list but that didn't help either. Why is Bonjour for windows called Bonjour print services. Does it only work for printers and not for servers? Thanks for whatever help I get. |
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Bonjour on Windows is just called Bonjour on Windows but it's only available to download as part of Print Services, Safari, iTunes, etc. It's a bit of a marketing bungle but it makes no difference to the actual functionality supplied. For Bonjour on Windows to discover services in the wide-area domain you'll either have to add your domain as a search domain or configure Bonjour via the Control Panel applet (if installed). Now to actually discovering the service instance and connecting to it. The Time Capsule serves files by AFP and CIFS/SMB. I'm not sure if the CIFS service is enabled by default or that it gets registered in a wide-area domain, but since Windows doesn't bundle an AFP client it's probably the only option. Apple doesn't install anything to assist with discovering CIFS services via Bonjour so you'll likely have to install a Bonjour browser to find the service instance and resolve it to it's port, etc (see this if you're unclear on what I'm referring to). Once you have those details you're in a position to actually connect to the CIFS service. I'm not familiar with how to get a Windows machine to connect to a CIFS service at a given hostname and port so I can't offer any help here, but if you've browsed, discovered and resolved the CIFS service instance in the wide-area domain, you at least know the service is available and that's a good half of the problem. |
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These KB articles may provide more help. |
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RotBlitz, I tried the different variations to no avail i.e. //timecapsulename.myhostname.com/ smb://timecapsulename.myhostname.com/ smb:\timecapsulename.myhostname.com/ http://timecapsulename.myhostname.com/ ftp://timecapsulename.myhostname.com/ https://timecapsulename.myhostname.com/ Andrew, I never heard of CIFS services. I checked out your link but it was over my head but thanks anyways for the reply. These two would be invalid anyway: //timecapsulename.myhostname.com/ (should be backslash); smb:timecapsulename.myhostname.com/ should be smb:\timecapsulename.myhostname.com.
Feb 18 at 07:27 AM
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