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Time Machine with OSX 10.8.2 & ReadyNAS NV+
I recently acquired my first Mac in several years and I was pleasantly surprised to find my ReadyNAS could act as a Time Machine disk. Unfortunately, after some problems making it work, I tripped acr...
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Well, for starters, I have enabled the Time Machine support in FrontView, given it a name, password, etc. However, when I go to the TIme Machine and "select backup disk," the ReadyNAS doesn't appear in the list of available items, like it does in the linked how-to in FrontView (http://www.readynas.com/?p=1097).
I can, however, browse all over the ReadyNAS from the Finder, so it doesn't appear to be a connectivity issue, unless there's a different protocol or such. Is it possible that the OSX firewall is blocking Time Machine, but not the Finder's access?
Tony
Well, for starters, I have enabled the Time Machine support in FrontView, given it a name, password, etc. However, when I go to the TIme Machine and "select backup disk," the ReadyNAS doesn't appear in the list of available items, like it does in the linked how-to in FrontView (http://www.readynas.com/?p=1097).
I can, however, browse all over the ReadyNAS from the Finder, so it doesn't appear to be a connectivity issue, unless there's a different protocol or such. Is it possible that the OSX firewall is blocking Time Machine, but not the Finder's access?
Tony
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