Time machine and network Lacie drive

Hi,
I have an network Lacie drive (1GB) that I just connected to my local network. I started the time machine, and after a few minutes I get this error message:
"The backup disk image "/Volumes/openshare/Peter Lauri's MacBook.sparsebundle" could not be created (error 45)."
Anything I can do about this? Anyone that has a Time Machine setup working with Lacie drive or other network drive?
/Peter

akapetchy wrote:
Hi V.K.-
I have a 2TB Lacie 2Big NAS drive, hooked to a Linksys router, that I thought (based on this forum) would not work with Time Machine. Last night, I found in the "share" properties, a box to check to make it the "share" compatible with Time Machine. I checked the box and Time Machine recognized the NAS drive "share" and was able to use it with no issues (so far) - I have my mac tied to the router with an ethernet cable. Lacie explicitly says on its product info page that this drive is "compatible with Time Machine" and it appears it is...
So, are "compatibile with" and "supported" different?
yes, they are. supported are the devices that are officially supported by apple and are guaranteed by apple to work for TM backups. that btw includes working now and also in the future after any possible updates to time machine. anything else you may want to use for TM backups apple makes no promises about. if you run into problems with such devices- you are on your own as far as apple is concerned.
now, all that said, there are a few 3rd party NAS devices that came out relatively recently (that includes your Lacie NAS) that claim to support TM backups. they have no blessings from apple to say such things but TM does seem to work and work quite well with such devices. for example, I don't think I've heard any complaints about problems with your Lacie NAS model as a TM drive.
so that's how things stand. AFAIK, the reason why some NASes work and others don't with TM are mostly technical and have to do with whether or not a particular NAS model implements all the features of afp that TM needs to work correctly.

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