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[FurryNutz]

Awesome man. Good to hear this. Let us know if you get TM going and how you configured it for others use if you will.

Hope it works well.

[BOBAULD]

Works out it assigned a new IP address each time but when I use
smb://192.168.0.1/usb_A1
it keeps it even after I restart my computer.

But I still can't get Time Machine to recognize my mapped drive.

[FurryNutz]

You need to set up Reserved IP addresses for your devices ON the router. That will keep devices at the same IP addresses.

I'll try and connect a drive to my 826L and see if I can get TM to see it and connect. It maybe a limitation of TM. Not sure yet. 

[FurryNutz]

Ok, so I attempted to connect TM to the mounted drive on the desktop after using smb://192.168.0.1/usb_A1. The drive was mounted and I could see the data on the drive. Launching TM resulted in a list of drives it saw however the mounted USB drive was not listed. I presume this is a limitation of TM and how it may recognizes drives. I presume that maybe it has to do with differences between actual physically connected USB drives and local installed drives on the Mac vs a shared or smb mounted drive which the interaction could be different. As a test, I mounted a shared drive on my wired LAN Windows 7 file server and again, TM failed to see that drive. So I presume this is a issue with TM mostly. 

[drjrules]

Hi guys! good post.

Currently, I've connected my hdd (WD 2TB usb3.0, HFS) in the usb port of my DIR-868L, and I've managed to enter to the hdd through smb. The problem is that router detects a hdd only 200mg, I think that I will have format it in FAT.
 
I'm going to test this article: http://code.stephenmorley.org/articles/time-machine-on-a-network-drive/

Will keep you informed.

[FurryNutz]

Try NTFS as well..

Hi guys! good post.

Currently, I've connected my hdd (WD 2TB usb3.0, HFS) in the usb port of my DIR-868L, and I've managed to enter to the hdd through smb. The problem is that router detects a hdd only 200mg, I think that I will have format it in FAT.
 
I'm going to test this article: http://code.stephenmorley.org/articles/time-machine-on-a-network-drive/

Will keep you informed.

[drjrules]

I tried it in another external drive (160Gb, NTFS) and the test was success, but I have a question: will the router support my external drive 2Tb? any experience?

Try NTFS as well..

[FurryNutz]

The last time I tested this out my 2Tb drive worked ok on Windows, however on MAC, Shareport would not work right. That was using v1.02 FW. I have not revisited this again since v1.04 has been released. I'll see if I can test this again when I get some time. Can you connect to the 2Tb drive on OSX using SMB to connect to the drive and not use SP to connect?

[drjrules]

I've formated (NTFS) and connected (SMB) the external disk. Now, I can see all disk capacity (2T), and I can already use as a time machine 

Thanks for all!

The last time I tested this out my 2Tb drive worked ok on Windows, however on MAC, Shareport would not work right. That was using v1.02 FW. I have not revisited this again since v1.04 has been released. I'll see if I can test this again when I get some time. Can you connect to the 2Tb drive on OSX using SMB to connect to the drive and not use SP to connect?

[FurryNutz]

Glad you got it working.

Enjoy. 

I've formated (NTFS) and connected (SMB) the external disk. Now, I can see all disk capacity (2T), and I can already use as a time machine 

Thanks for all!