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Making Time Machine work with the ReadyNAS
The step-by-step how-to can be found here.
andy_vdg wrote: Please include this in your official step by step:
In order for this to work your computer name has to be short - no spaces or fancy characters like ' " etc...
It took me a long long time to figure out this was the reason Time Machine wasn't working even though I followed the instructions to the T.
Once I changed my computer name from Andy's MacBook Pro to andy-mbp and logged out and back in again it worked like a charm.
Found the solution here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1434341&tstart=135
Hope this saves others a headache.
Were you connecting using AFP or CIFS? I was also able to get it to work using AFP with an apostrophe in the name.
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