Kaleb's Grey Matter

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.