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Alexander Trauzzi
Asked: 2015-04-18 18:39:41 +0800 CST

Connecting to Apple Airport Time Capsule: Got error "kFPAuthContinue" from server

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Trying to connect to the time capsule, I've explicitly set my username and password using a separate OSX machine. So I know all of my credentials are correct.

For some reason though, when I try to connect through nautilus, I get the message:

Got error "kFPAuthContinue" from server

Obviously Apple is just being difficult here, but I'd love to be able to read and write files to my airport time capsule from Ubuntu computers.

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2 Answers

  1. my solution was to mount the drive from the shell as root using :

    mount //IPADDROFCAPSULE/Data /media/capsule -o username=jeff,sec=ntlm,uid=jeff

    notes :

    • username=jeff : jeff is the name setup on the account on the time capsule (using airport utility on an iphone)
    • uid=jeff : jeff is my logon name in linux
    • IPADDROFCAPSULE : put in your I.P. address of the capsule
    • Data is the name of the drive as set in airport utility
    • /media/capsule is a mount point of own choosing - make the directory first of course

    I'm using Fedora, but I expect this will work the same on ubuntu, etc., if you use sudo where you cannot log in as root

    Found the answer here : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2118108

    They show : 

    sudo mount.cifs //IP_ADDRESS/Data ~/capsule -o password=CAPSULE_PASSWORD,sec=ntlm,uid=LOCAL_USERNAME

    and I think this works if instead of accounts in airport utility you set a password on the drive itself. Or it's that this user had an account on the time capsule with the same name as the LOCAL_USERNAME.

    But my line above works for me!

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  2. On later versions of Ubuntu, Samba requires you to specify you want the old version with vers=1.0 (this previously was the default but no longer is).

    I've written a full guide for Ubuntu 20.04 on this AskUbuntu post.

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