sparsebundle problem-unable to mount - OSStatus error -6602

Sorry for taking so long to get back on this but The DUO is actually my sister's - as is the mac - and I'm only up here once or twice a week.

To answer your questions:
It is a static IP for the DUO
There is no sparsebundle anywhere however when I log on via smb through finder there is a folder called iMac.sparsebundle - it cannot however be mounted - in fact the error message is"The operation cannot be completed because the original item for iMac.sparsebundle cannot be found"
In addition it can't be seen when I go in via SSH either.

I tried resetting the Keychain and rebooted - nothing different though.

The machine is an intel iMac - 3.06GHz with 4GB RAM.

It's still on 10.5.8 as, being my sister's, she really has no need of the paid upgrade as yet.

In addition, I'm noticing that when I enable Timemachine in frontview it still has the 0GB of Max 741GB Capacity showing, even after i change it an apply, hitting refresh takes it back to 0GB again.

So once again I'm a bit stuck - any other ideas?

Many thanks.

mdgm wrote:

Do you have a static IP address assigned to the ReadyNAS (e.g. in the settings for your router)? If not, I would assign one. I would also check /c/.timemachine and if there's a sparsebundle there remove it. Regarding the keychain, on your Mac go to Applications > Utilities > Keychain Access and delete the keychain entries for the NAS there, then reboot the Mac again. Do you have a Power PC Mac? Or is there some other reason you're still using Leopard? Attempt to do Time Machine backups again and see if it works.

Sorry for taking so long to get back on this but The DUO is actually my sister's - as is the mac - and I'm only up here once or twice a week.

Northwinds wrote:
when I log on via smb through finder there is a folder called iMac.sparsebundle

What share do you login to via AFP.

Northwinds wrote:
it cannot however be mounted - in fact the error message is"The operation cannot be completed because the original item for iMac.sparsebundle cannot be found"

You can't mount a sparsebundle over CIFS, only AFP. This may not be the problem here.

Northwinds wrote:
In addition it can't be seen when I go in via SSH either.

It will be there, you just don't know the path. It may be somewhere like /c/home/admin. If you look in the /etc/passwd file you will see the location of the home share for the "admin" user (If that's the share in which the sparsebundle is stored).

Northwinds wrote:
In addition, I'm noticing that when I enable Timemachine in frontview it still has the 0GB of Max 741GB Capacity showing, even after i change it an apply, hitting refresh takes it back to 0GB again.

You can try clearing the web browser cache (e.g. Safari > Empty Cache). Also I have some useful commands giving info regarding Time Machine on the ReadyNAS listed here: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=42033&p=239030

The repquota command will tell you the quota for the ReadyNAS Time Machine user and conclusively tell you if it's set to what you want it. On one platform you need to use grep "text" for the code after the "|" separator on that line and on the other one you need to not use quotes.

What share do you login to via AFP. - sorry, not sure I understand the question?

Tried looking everywhere I could find via ssh but still couldn't find it.

Tried clearing the Safari cache and still no joy.

Finally I tried a bunch of the commands you listed - thanks for those.
But to my newbie eye i couldn't make much useful sense of the results.
Perhaps you could have a look and maybe point me in the right direction?


After logging in:

Linux nas-07-C5-4C 2.6.17.8ReadyNAS #1 Tue Jun 9 13:59:28 PDT 2009 padre unknown
nas-07-C5-4C:~# repquota -as | grep limits\|User\|ReadyNAS
Block limits File limits
User used soft hard grace used soft hard grace
nas-07-C5-4C:~# cat /etc/passwd | grep ReadyNAS
ReadyNAS:$1$qMF/r9E7$StjNoDppo/E.2zt6pHAjH1:96:65534::/var/lib/timemachine:/bin/true
nas-07-C5-4C:~# ls -la /c/.timemachine
ls: /c/.timemachine: No such file or directory
nas-07-C5-4C:~# ls -la /var/lib/timemachine
total 48
dr-x------ 2 ReadyNAS root 16384 Nov 19 2010 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 16384 Nov 19 2010 ..
-r-------- 1 ReadyNAS root 66 Feb 2 2010 .AppleVolumes
nas-07-C5-4C:~# cat /var/lib/timemachine/.AppleVolumes
/c/.timemachine ReadyNAS cnidscheme:dbd allow:ReadyNAS options:tm
nas-07-C5-4C:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc1 1.9G 451M 1.4G 23% /
tmpfs 16k 0 16k 0% /USB
/dev/c/c 1.4T 640G 750G 47% /c
/c/media 1.4T 640G 750G 47% /home/ftp/media
nas-07-C5-4C:~# cat /etc/avahi/services/timemachine.service
<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*-->
<service-group>
<name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name>
<service>
<type>_adisk._tcp</type>
<port>9</port>
<txt-record>sys=waMA=C0:3F:0E:09:C8:18</txt-record>
<txt-record>dk0=adVF=0x83,adVN=ReadyNAS,adVU=25dc38af-9ed0-47bf-802a-83791aa4d14b</txt-record>
</service>
</service-group>
nas-07-C5-4C:~#

Hope this makes some sense to you?

Many thanks again in advance.

Anything make any sense here?

Northwinds wrote:
nas-07-C5-4C:~# repquota -as | grep limits\|User\|ReadyNAS Block limits File limits User used soft hard grace used soft hard grace

Ah, I think you need to use

nas-07-C5-4C:~# repquota -as | grep "limits\|User\|ReadyNAS"

Northwinds wrote:
nas-07-C5-4C:~# cat /etc/passwd | grep ReadyNAS

Please don't publish the output of this line publicly.

Northwinds wrote:
nas-07-C5-4C:~# ls -la /c/.timemachine ls: /c/.timemachine: No such file or directory

O.K. So you're not using the supported method.

Northwinds wrote:
<txt-record>sys=waMA=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX</txt-record> </service-group>

I don't think I'd post this line either.

Northwinds wrote:
Hope this makes some sense to you?

Yes. Please try the repquota command again using the quotes this time.

Please also look for the sparsebundle, perhaps look under /c/home/admin and see if you can find the sparsebundle there.

If so, try doing

du -csh /c/home/admin * and post the line that mentions your sparsebundle.