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can't connect

I have a MacBook Air that is no longer able to connect to TC for TM backup. I also cannot mount TC from the Finder. The MBA does, however, successfully use TC for wifi. Also, other computers in the house do connect to TC in Finder and for TM backup..

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Ken

Intel iMac, MB Air, iPod Touch, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Sep 22, 2010 8:47 AM

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Answer 1

Tesserax

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Sep 22, 2010 8:58 AM in response to Ken Stone

Can your MacBook Air connect to the TC at all? ... just not for backups? If not, can it "see" and connect to other Wi-Fis?

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Ken Stone Author

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Sep 22, 2010 9:02 AM in response to Tesserax

TC is shown in the sidebar of a Finder window. When I try to connect it fails with an "error connecting to the server" message.

The MBA does successfully connect to the TC wifi.

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Tesserax

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Sep 22, 2010 9:09 AM in response to Ken Stone

Please take a look at these excellent Time Machine troubleshooting procedures from one of our Discussions members Pondini. They should give you some things to try to see if you can get this resolved quickly: Apple Discussions: Time Machine - TROUBLESHOOTING

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Ken Stone Author

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Sep 22, 2010 9:27 AM in response to Tesserax

Well, I probably should have tried this before posting: just rebooted the TC and it's fine.

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Ken

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