Time Machine .. hacks to work over network?

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SuperNet9 Go Ninja,Go Ninja Go.. Premium join:2002-10-08 Harwood Heights, IL kudos:4 Reviews: ·VOIPo ·Comcast 2 edits	Time Machine .. hacks to work over network? »discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp···tstart=0 I am going to try this when I get home 1) disconnect airport disk and plug into computer as a USB drive directly. 2) Set up time machine to use this volume. 3) In terminal cd to volume "cd /Volume/HDD" 4) In terminal "touch .com.apple.timemachine.supported" this will create an invisible file. 5) In terminal "sudo chown root:admin .com.apple.timemachine.supported" 6) In terminal "sudo chmod 1775 .com.apple.timemachine.supported" 7) In terminal "ls -l -a" the .com.apple.timemachine.supported file should be -rwxrwxr-t 8) eject disk, unplug from mac, plug into Airport. 9) mount at mac using connect to server in finder (command k) and afp://airportname.local./HDname 10) see if time machine now sees the drive and tries to use it. -- Comcast HSI 8.0-768 / ATT CV - VoIP / »www.TalkAboutVoIP.COM - VoIP news & help / »www.ChicagoMaximaClub.net - My Website !
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The Dv8or Just call me Dong Suck Oh, M.D. Premium join:2001-08-09 Denver, CO	Oh goody! Another separate thread! You tool.
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Count Zero MD2Be Premium join:2007-01-18 Warner Robins, GA	Do you write the "Best Page in the Universe" blog?
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NOCMan MacChatter Premium join:2004-09-30 Colorado Springs, CO	reply to SuperNet9 This does not work. The problem I have on my ReadyNas is that I can not change ownership of the file. If I copy it from somewhere else I get the same problem too. -- Mac Chatter »www.macchatter.net
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yabos join:2003-02-16 London, ON	You can't change any permissions on a network drive with sudo. You have to be able to ssh to the machine that has the drive or change it directly from that machine. However I tried it and it still didn't work anyways.
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