We have two MacBook Pros and a 4TB WD MyBook drive hooked to our wireless router. That drive is partitioned and used for Time Machine backups. We haven't had any issues with this setup, until yesterday we decided to format the drive and repartition it. We did it with my MacBook Pro which is running El Capitan (10.11.3) and the newer Disk Utility program. I hooked the drive up locally on the laptop and it came back and said that the formatting/partitioning went through fine. However, I moved it back over to the router as a network drive and went to setup Time Machine.... Time Machine couldn't see the drive. I could map the drive and read/write to it through 'Connect to Server...' without any issues. Even tried the 'map the drive to the desktop' trick to get it to show up on the available drives list in Time Machine. Nothing worked! I thought may something had been setup wrong, or went wrong, with the partitioning and did it again... still the same results. The third time I decided to use my wife's MacBook Pro which is still running Yosemite with the previous 'Disk Utility' program on it. I went through and formatted/partitioned it the same as before. However, when I hooked it back up as the network drive this time and mapped the drive it showed right up in Time Machine just like it should have the first time.
Is there an issue with Time Machine finding network drives formatted/partitioned in El Capitan? Is there some setting that needs to be changed in the new 'Disk Utility' program for it to work? I'm at a bit of a loss here...
Is there an issue with Time Machine finding network drives formatted/partitioned in El Capitan? Is there some setting that needs to be changed in the new 'Disk Utility' program for it to work? I'm at a bit of a loss here...