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SOLVED-Trying to set up Time Machine backup but OS X won't allow log in to server

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HI! I can log in to my NAS just fine via a browser and I can connect to the file server logging in with my usual credentials and it shows up in my Finder. However, when I try to add the folder I created on my NAS to Time Machine, when it asks me to log in to access the server, I add my credentials, the window disappears for a sec and then pops back up again! Over and over and over. No error message, it doesn't shake its head like when you add the wrong password, it just won't move past that stage and I don't know what to do. Does anyone have any suggestions? So, this first log in window to connect in Finder works great. The second one, the green one, for connecting to the Time Machine, won't follow through. Very frustrating. I followed these instructions here created a new used for Time Machine, enabled smb and everything it asked. But I can't get it to allow me to log on. Once again, no error message occurs, the window disappears and then pops up again in 2 seconds.

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If you’re using a standard user account, which is what you should be doing, then you have to add access to the Time Machine shared folder.
 
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thank you for your response! I think I did that already, see below.I am not sure what else to do! I created a user called "Time Machine" and that has access to read and write my drives. I also tried my user account, which has access to everything. I just won't take any account. But, like I said, the credentials are correct, it doesn't do the shake when it has the wrong credentials.




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@fredbert I got it! Making me post those screenshots made me notice that blue information icon by the Time Machine folder. When I clicked on it, it told me that if I had selected advanced permissions, that the permissions it is showing me may not be accurate, and sure enough, under advanced permissions, it wasn't selected! Now it works! Thanks for prompting me and I learned something new about permissions.
 
Glad you worked it out.
 

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