Hi
I previously used a macbook pro and two mybook WEIIs on one network. One of the drives was hooked up to time machine and the other stored my music. The system worked fine.
I recently purchased a mac mini. However, when this is switched on, my macbook pro can no longer connect to the time machine share. When the mac mini is switched off it can. I have now changed the music drive to be the time machine backup for the mac mini. For 2 days everything worked as it should with hourly back-ups. However yesterday the same problem occurred with neither computer being able to locate their back-up drives whilst the other computer was switched on. As soon as one or other of the computers was switched off the other could back-up.
What can be causing the interference?
I have checked the network - each machine and each drive has been automatically issued with a separate IP address. Both computers can connect to the non-Time machine shares on both back-up drives without any problems. Mac Mini is connected both by ethernet and wi-fi to router - neither configuration makes any difference to porblem. The hard drives are called different names and can be identified from each other.
Equipment - macbook pro and mac mini (both on Lion), Netgear router WDR3800 and 2 Mybook World Edition IIs.
