All of a sudden Back up disk not recognized

2 months of flawless backup, NOW just won't connect to disk. I can connect to the iMac that is connected to backup disk from MBP. BUt, I can't actually connect to iMac only screen share, but I can still access the drives that are connected to the network. but Time Mchine won't see them anymore. I made no changes at all to any settings so this was abrupt and for no reason. Any suggestoins. Much appreciation in advance. thanks

Kerose,
Did you experience something like what I described in this post: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2635746&tstart=0
If so, on the good side this resolved itself after a system restart. On the bad side, I still do not understand what it means.
Thanks,
Matt

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