Need help connecting to network hard drive

I just purchased a new MacBook Pro upgraded from PC. We have a Seagate BlackArmor NAS 110 hard drive that works perfectly well with our PC and home media. Other devices such as our PS3 can see and connect to it just fine. We still haven't been able to get the mac to "see/connect" to the drive. We've gone through the hard drive installation guide but we always end up with an error message that says "connection Failed" there was an error connecting to the server after inputing the username and password to the supposed drive connection. I thought I was doing it right but its not working. I don't know what to do next. Can anyone explain what I should do?

I have the black armour NAS 110 as well. I can access the drive w/ the discovery software. When I try to use i as backup the time machine does not recognise the drive. Also new to macs. Any help appreciated.

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