Hi Arno, Under File Sharing in System Preferences, I have the box checked for AFP (under Options).
I will tinker some more -- I haven't spent much time on it yet. If necessary, I can try your command line solution. Thanks for the help. Gregg On Oct 30, 2014, at 2:52 PM, Arno Hautala <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Andy Ringsmuth <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 2. Open Terminal on the new Mac Pro and type this (or copy/paste): >> defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 >> >> Time Machine will only back up to "supported" volumes. The only way to do >> that over a network like you want is with OS X Server. But you certainly can >> use unsupported volumes as in No. 2 above. I've done that for years without >> incident, but beware, it is a little bit of a "hack." > > AFP shares are "supported" volumes (it's how they're mounted from > TimeCapsules), so there shouldn't be any need to use the defaults > write command. It would be required for other share types like SMB. > > How is the "old Mac" being shared? Is it via AFP? I know Apple is > deprecating AFP, but it's still there specifically for TimeMachine so > I would think you should be able to share the "old Mac" this way. > > Was the "old Mac" mounted on the "new Mac" when you tried to set up > TimeMachine? This may be required. > > If you still can't get the "old Mac" to show as a TimeMachine target, > you can try manually specifying the TimeMachine target on the command > line: > >> sudo tmutil setdestination -p afp://gregg@oldMac/timeMachineShare > > "-p" means you'll be prompted for the password rather than including > it in the destination address (afp://greg:password@...) > > More info here: > https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man8/tmutil.8.html > > -- > arno s hautala /-| [email protected] > > pgp b2c9d448 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
