First back up complete but Time Machine says no locations found?

I've just got home to after leaving my initial back up running about 15 hours to complete.
When I got home my imac was powered off but Time Capsule was on.
When I click on Time Machine now it says The storage locations for Time Machine backups can't be found and then has a link to set up time machine (which i already did before the initial back up!).
When I click that link it shows my TC however Available is: -- but it shows times for oldest, latest and next back up. If I click on options I get the Do not back up screen and that is blank but shows total included 276 gig which is the size of my first back up.
If I click on TC in the finder window under shared it just says connection failed.
Also FYI my imac has 2 user accounts, myself and my dad if that makes any difference to the solution to any of the above.
Help?
Thanks
Darren

Under where it says "Connection failed.", click on "Connect..." and it'll prompt you for a password. Enter the password for TC and be sure to click on the checkbox for "Remember this password." Hit OK.
Your Mac will be connected to TC even though it won't be mounted on your Desktop. Your backups should now work and your TC will still be connected even if you logged out/logged back into and/or restarted your Mac.
Hope this helps.

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Message was edited by: Chris Harmount

Chris Harmount wrote:
my back up drive is supposed to be 250G total. It says it has 185G available.
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