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I have a netwok volume attached via Mac Mini server used for Time Machine. Recently I had a disk problem and have copied the TM backups to another drive. I have three Macs two running 10.6.8 and one running 10.5.8. Using TM on two machines (10.6.8 and 10.5.8) works fine, it connects properly and backs up, however on the third (also 10.6.8) the TM Preferences does not "see" any of the attached network volumes only the directly attached. The network volumes appear on the desktop and it is possible to read/write to the network volumes from Finder.
I have replaced the prefs file com.apple.TimeMachine.plist to no avail.
Any suggestions most welcome.
Mike

Mike Turner wrote:
I have a netwok volume attached via Mac Mini server
maybe i misunderstand but, FWIW, from this user tip:

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