Time Machine on QNAP

Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere but I have been looking and cannot find the a solution
I have been running my time machine with no problems for a year or so with my imac and air on a qnap NAS
All software firmware is latest
I added a macbook a few weeks ago and soon after that it all stopped working
I think I might have messed with passowrds and made a silly error but my attempts to fix have got me into a real mess!
I have deleted all backups on NAS and restarted time machine but when i try to reconnect on imac i just get a spinning disk
I think I need to start completly again and make my macs completely forget i ever had a time machine connection
I have tried using tmutil although I am not sure I was doing this right
But i cannot get beyond a spinning disk......getting a bit frantic now so any help appreciated

Barney-15E wrote:
Time Machine backups are not supported on network storage (except Time Capsule).
That's not exactly so.
AppleCare (and Apple Stores) don't support it, meaning, they don't have access to the hardware so can't test, much less replicate problems so the software gurus can find the problem.  There are a whole lot of NAS makes, models, and software versions, so supporting them in that sense would require all sorts of hardware and training.  The same is true of printers, scanners, U.P.S. systems, and the like.
But they are supported in the sense that Apple publishes the specifications for developers.  If the NAS maker implements AFP file sharing and the special requirements for Time Machine properly, it will work.  But it's a crapshoot -- when the requirements change, the NAS maker may not have updates available immediately, if at all.
Personally, my suspicion is that making it work well is not a big deal to the NAS makers -- it's just another way to sell hardware.  So it will work when they test, but in the real world, when things go wrong, especially when there are power or network problems, their programming may not be doing exactly what TM expects, so all sorts of things may go wrong.

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    Just to clarify you should NOT see the QNAP disk via disk utility.. It is a network drive.. disk utility will only see local drives.. or virtual drives hosted on a network.
    The fact you do see the disk in Finder.. will usually make it available in TM but for some reason the new router has upset things.. I suspect because you are on a different IP range.
    Have a try at manually mounting the QNAP in finder using the top menu Go>Connect to Server command.
    Type in AFP://192.168.1.1
    When asked type in the correct username and password.. this is specifically for your TM share.. but this may not work..
    You might need to type it in explicitly with the user.. Anyhow.. please read specifically section 3 here on mounting the TM share in your Mac.
    http://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/How_to_setup_your_QNAP_NAS_with_Apple_Time_Machine

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