Time Machine for AX6000 is missing options to set login / password?
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I just got the AX6000 and one of the features that appealed to me was the fact that I could use Time Machine on it. On other models you could set a username and password however on this model in the guide it just says to turn it on and point to a connected drive.
Now, when I try to connect to it it requests for a username and a password. Blank won't let me enter, admin / admin doesn't work, I set a username and password in USB sharing, that didn't work either. It attempts to connect but ends up in a failure message always.
Is this a bug?
@jbouw I was having this same issue. What ended up fixing it for me was adding "access authentication" (aka username and password) to the disk in the router admin. See attached #1. When Time Machine asked to connect to the router, I then entered these credentials and it was able to add "BackupTM" as a Time Machine disk.
Step #2... even though that added the disk to Time Machine, MacOS couldn't actually start a backup. I need to ALSO go into Finder and connect to the disk there. See attached #2.
After that, Time Machine started backing up fine. We shall see how sticky these settings are. Fingers crossed it will "just work" from now on.
Hope that helps someone.
