Network Drives and Time Machine

How do I get Time Machine to see and connect to a network drive such as an Iomega Nework backup device? The drive is visible in Finder but when I try to configure Time Machine it is not visible as a backup device drive. Can someone please tell me whether Time Machine work with network drives or only as a USB drive?

Hi
I just got my NAS to work with Time Machine.
Follow the instructions in this link http://www.readynas.com/?p=253
Be aware that is a long process especially if you don't have 1000T network and you start from scratch.
The same tasks with Hdiutil can be achieved directly with disk utility through the graphic interface assuming you know which settings have to be used (Journalled, Sparsebundle, Simple Apple Partition)
Good luck

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John,
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Tim Dixon wrote:
Hi All,
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