Mounting AirPort Time Capsule on Linux in 2025
Sep 21, 2025
Apple AirPort Time Capsule provides two protocols to access its shares:
- SMB1
- Apple Filing Protocol
In this post I’ll briefly review the status of both methods on Linux in 2025.
SMB1
SMB1 support has been partially dropped from the kernel since 5.15, yet you may still use it with some workarounds. More details in this post.
Apple Filing Protocol
AFP shares can be mounted using afpfs-ng. The project was archived in 2020, but still works for my use case.
On ArchLinux you can install it with: sudo pacman -S afpfs-ng.
If you run Debian, the package is no longer on the repositories. This post provides a solution.
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