My book live issues

Just bought 3tb My Book Live nas drive to use for backups. Finder can see the drive, but Time Machine can't and neither can Disk Utility. I am running OS 10.8.4 on a 27" Imac. I have done a factory restore on the disk to see if that made any difference - no.
Any ides how to persuade Time Machine to back up to it please

I have just started using a 2tb mybook live via wifi and though i set it up by directly connecting to my imac ethernet socket it works fine. One thing to note is that you must login using the Guest signin. An issue that may arise is restoring from a time machine backup from the my book live may not work as it may not be vissible until the OS and apps are installed, I say may arise as i have not tried it having just replaced the internal drive recently and recovered from a time machine backup stored on a usb drive.
Hope this helps

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