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dbonneville
Follower
Mar 26, 2019

Can't get Time Machine to work with Nighthawk

Mac OS Mojave 10.14.3 Nighthawk(R) X4S R7800 Router Firmware Version V1.0.2.62 (just updated)   I bought a new 1TB Seagate SSD external HD. I formatted it according to the instructions low...
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grudek
Tutor
Dec 09, 2020

In Manual 

  • On a Mac: Go > Connect to Server >type: smb: //readyshare

In Reality smb is not fully supported by Apple change smb: to afp: and your disk will be visible and you will have stable backup.

can be afp://readyshare or afp://routerlogin.net

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rsneddis
Aspirant
Dec 09, 2020

smb://readyshare does add readyshare to the lhs in the finder, and then I can open the timemachine.dmg and see it in the time machine config, but afp://readyshare or afp://routerlogin.net returns an error

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    grudek
    Tutor
    Dec 09, 2020

    Strange, So this mean I can't help.