Time Machine Backup from Snow leopard

My old Macbook died. It was rurning Snow Leopard, and fortunately i had everything backed up with time machine on an iomega network drive. I just bought a new Macbook pro with Mountain Lion and i get an error when i try to access the time machine backup: "The version of the server you are trying to connect to is not supported. Please contact your system administrator to resolve the problem."
Any ideas?
Thank you

See Pondini's Excellent information here...
Setting-up a new Mac from an old one, its backups, or a PC
But am not sure about TM and your iomega network drive
More Info here...
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.htm

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