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Time Machine with Network drive

Problem:

Every time you shut down your Mac, you lose your connection to a network drive.

Solution:

Preferences->Accounts->Login Items and adding the icon of your already mounted network volume. Mac OSX will mount it every time you log in.

1. Mount your network drive (check step-5 if you are getting error in mounting)

2. Change the preferences by running following command (open iTerm or other shell)
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

3. Now activate the time machine

4. You will now be able to select your network drive.

5. In case, you loose your network mount, you will need to reset the preference set in step-2, by running following command (open iTerm or other shell)
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 0

For more detail, read this

Completely copied from http://smangal.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/time-machine-with-network-drive/

the disc permissions are set like this:
me custom
staff custom
everyone custom

also there is a lock icon on the left hand side of the drive icon…

ls -aldeO /Volumes/”drive-name”

Put the name of the drive in the above and keep the quotes. This will list all permissions, ACLs and flags on the drive.

Output:
drw-rw-r-T 46 root admin uchg 1632 Jun 30 16:30 /Volumes/Vault

Actions:
sudo chflags nouchg /Volumes/”drive-name”
chmod 755 /Volumes/”drive-name”

And fixed!

taken from: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1590482