Time Machine Over Network

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Hello,

I am looking for a cheaper way to use time machine over wireless network.

Here is the setup - 1 Macbook hooked up to non apple wireless rounter
1 XP SP2 PC with 2TB+ Storage/Workhorse mahine

Now i heard there was way to get time machine to backup to an unsupported network volume, I used a terminal hack to enable unsupported drives, unsupported drives now show up but i have no joy backing up to the over wireless or wired.

now i really dont think i need a time capsule. really i should be able to do it with the technology i already have at hand.

Does anyone here have experience with using Time Machine over a network to and XP machine?
If so and you have used the unsupported drives hack, how would you restore that backup in the event of a hard drive faluire? Wouldn't time machine not read from the unsupported drive when it came to restore?

any help would be appreciated, dont facey being suckered into buying somthing i dont really need :)
 
Not tried it yet.. combination of making space, getting time when I can plug the MBP into copper and having the array switched on..
I the FS under my samba is linux JFS. What does Samba have in it's log?
 
Luke284 said:
where can i find the Samba log? I got a MBP yesterday, so im VERY new to this... not even 100% sure what Samba is!?
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Samba is the program that acts as a windows file server. It is usually on a separate machine rather than the MBP.

I have a SuSE linux box which runs Samba. My MBP can then connect in easily, as can my windows games box.

It will be under /var/log/samba as log.* (ie log.smdb) on the box running samba.
 
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