AFP - LaCie Network Space 2 - Not Working on OSX Lion 10.7

I got mine updated to where I can authenticate and can see the drive - but Time Machine backup cannot see the drive - so what gives? can I no longer use a NAS drive for TimeMachine - or is there yet another update required for this to work?

Marcelleke wrote:

Hi,

My solution as described above doesn't help the time machine problem.

it only solves the FILE SERVER part of your NAS trought AFP.

it also works with the SMB as I told.

but apple needs their PROPER afp protocol to activate time machine to your NAS.

LACIE just announced they are in progress creating a update which will be pushed to all NAS systems asap.

Thanks Marcel.

I hoped initially that your solution would fix the AFP issue on my Lacie NetworkSpace2 (which cannot be used anymore with Time Machine), I confirm it doesn't.

FYI, I have upgraded earlier today the NAS firmware to version 1.2.93 and I was able to connect to the NAS (Finder: Go to/Connect to server... afp://192.168.x.x) before running your recommended commands in terminal mode, meaning that the latest NAS firmware 1.2.93 may have been solved the AFP issue at least for the file server part. Something I cannot remember is if I was able to connect to the NAS in the Finder prior to upgrading the firrmware.

I have created a support ticket on Lacie support website and will let the community know any follow up on this (having in mind Lacie support is usually quite slow to answer requests...).

Cheers,

Thiebaud

Hi Marcelleke,

did you check that your other shares use AFP-only and not SMB? If not so it could be possible that you connect the other shares unwittingly via SMB - so the firmware 1.2.93 does not solve the problem.

Here's a temporary fix:

1. Open Finder
2. On the menu, go to Go > Connect to Server (or) use the shortcut CMD+K
3. Type: smb://IP-OF-YOUR-NETWORK-SPACE (i.e. 192.168.1.5)
4. Click "Connect"
5. Type in the username and password
6. Select the folder you want to mount
7. Voila 🙂

Hi Marcelleke,

As you are saying that time machine works again on your network space 2, can you let us know which version of the LaCie firmware you are currently running? I am currently running version 1.2.93. I am not sure if this version solves the time machine problem under Lion.

thanks

Ronald

Marcelleke could you please report if TM is working again with 1.2.93 again? Here it only fixed the problem with connecting to my shares in finder. I have two machines here that still cannot use TM.

Kind regards,

Sander

Hi Marcel,

I'm afraid that for many of us the issue is not solved at all. The last firmware update 1.2.93 doesn't fix the issue as reported by Time Machine: "required AFP features are missing" (translated from the French error message).

I would be grateful if you could confirm what you said on July 24th: "Lacie updates now rolling out to all nas disks. Afp & time machine is working again".

I'm in contact with Lacie support centre which is still struggling with this issue and doesn't seem to have a new firmware under testing for an immediate release.

Thanks,

Thiebaud

Does this just disable Time Machine functions? And is that a workaround?

From everything that I have seen - the answer is - the 1.2.93 firmware is required for user authentication access to any portions of the drive which are password protected for individual users - and that 1.2.94 will be required for Time Machine functionality on the user shares to be restored.

I have not tried it - but you might be able to use the OpenShare with guest access for TIme Machine - but that is not a good solution.

The only "work arounds" at the moment are to wait for the 1.2.94 firmware - or use some other device for TM backup.

FYI, related article found on Apple Support:

Lion Server: Connecting to legacy AFP services

Can I have this version 1.2.94 ?

regards

I received the same link http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4700 from LaCie as a workaround for the issue. They claim it restores the support for DHCAST128 in Lion. I understand that this is the protocol used by the Networkspace2. Can anybody check this (I have not yet installed Lion yet)?

thanks

Ronald