File Sharing on Time Capsule?

**ScottW** · #1 February 28th, 2008, 10:41 AM

Digging around the internet, I am getting mixed information on what Time Capsule can or can not do.

It seems to be clear that multiple machines can backup to the device via Time Machine, no arguments there.

What does seem confusing is whether or not you can do file sharing, ie 4 Macs in a small work group using it as a NAS type device, and if it does allow this, what type of permissions handling does it have?

If anyone has some clear answers on that, please let me know.

Scott

**ScottW** · #2 February 28th, 2008, 10:57 AM

Looks like it just started shipping today or yesterday. So, perhaps the answer will be out by weekend!

FlashMac · #3 March 7th, 2008, 07:23 AM

So, what's the answer?

Satcomer · #4 March 7th, 2008, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by FlashMac

So, what's the answer?

I want to know too because my Time Capsule is "in the mail".

**ScottW** · #5 March 7th, 2008, 09:15 AM

I have not tested it out myself, and I see some varying answers on this question and it comes down to this.

You can setup users and assign read only and read/write permissions, but nothing more complex than that. I have seen conflicting reports on whether or not it can be assigned to individual folders or if it is the whole drive share itself.