Time Machine doesn't recognize networked external...

[MacGeeky]

Was running out of room on my MacBook Pro - OS Leopard. I travel a lot and had corruption issues with all the hooking and unhooking of external drives so I did not want to connect directly to the MacBook. I want to network an external drive and so I've attached a 1 TB WB Essential drive (reformatted using Disk Utility) via USB to my Airport Extreme base. I have 2 partitions, one for iTunes, etc; and the other, ostensibly, for Time Machine. I can see it on the network, go to it, copy files to it, but Time Machine does see it on the network when I attempt to select it for backup - note, it did see it and backup to it when it was connected directly to the MacBook. Does anyone know why? It seems this should work, but I'm a little slow when it comes to networks. Any help, ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris

 

[satcomer]

Have you checked Apple Update for the Airport Update that made this possible yet?

 

[mbestel]

Apple restricts this

Apple only allows Time Machine backups over the network to a Time Capule or Mac OS X Server.

I ended up getting around it with this:

http://www.netrev.com.au

Seems to work fine.

Cheers,

Mark