TimeMachine-Account noch correct(?)

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TimeMachine-Account noch correct(?)

Hello!

Today, because of another problem, i tried to use a TimeMachine-Backup to restore my Macbook.

That worked until the User/Password for connecting to my TimeMachine-Volume. My User/Password was rejected.

The volume is located on a Synology-NAS. Therefore i created a seperate user/password on this synology. With this user my mac logs into the Synology. That works fine.

I thought, this user/password would be the right one to connect to the volume in this case - but it isn't.

Which account is needed to connect to the volume?

Best regards!

Reinhold

MacBook Pro with Retina display

Posted on Apr 10, 2015 3:22 AM

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Answer 1

Eric Root

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Apr 10, 2015 11:40 AM in response to Appelist

Try logging into your normal account, but use the user/password from the other account.

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Appelist Author

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Apr 11, 2015 4:34 AM in response to Eric Root

Sorry - what do you mean with "normal" and "other" account.

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Eric Root

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Apr 11, 2015 9:44 AM in response to Appelist

Normal is the one that did't work and other is the one you created.

How many user accounts do you have?

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Appelist Author

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Apr 11, 2015 11:00 AM in response to Eric Root

Ok - sorry, I explained my problem not exactly enough. My english isn't the best...

There is only on accout - with this account my macbook does it's TimeMachine-Backups (on the synology nas).

The process to restore your mac (starting with pressing ctrl+R when booting the macbook) asks for a user/password to connect to the TimeMachine-Volume. I thought, this must be the above mentioned account. But that didn't work.

So it seems like i don't understand TimeMachine in this case...

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Eric Root

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Apr 12, 2015 1:43 PM in response to Appelist

If you set the computer to require a login and restart, does the user and password work there?

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Appelist Author

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May 29, 2015 5:36 AM in response to Appelist

Just to let you know the cause of the problem: Very simple. After booting my mac into "recover-mode" the keyboard was set to "us", not to german. That was what I didn't notice...

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