Major issue with AFP support and Time Machine

[nsne]

So where is Humphries (AFP)?

That only appears when I turn on the "Advertise AFP service over Bonjour" option, and I had turned it off for two reasons:

1. It resulted in a superfluous "Humphries (CIFS)" or "ReadyNAS (CIFS)" entry in my Finder sidebar, even though the CIFS protocol is entirely disabled on my ReadyNAS.
2. I was still encountering TM/sharepoint confusion whereby sometimes "Media" would mount via TM's "ReadyNAS" rather than "ReadyNAS (AFP)," even though I wasn't back to the dismal point of getting the ghost shares (after changing the IP).

To follow this through yet again, I've re-enabled AFP advertising to see what happens. Right now my "Media" share is mounted via "ReadyNAS (AFP)" with the address:

afp://ReadyNAS (AFP)._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Media

I'm going to play with fire and switch on the TM share. I'll post an update if the "ReadyNAS" vs. "ReadyNAS (AFP)" mount confusion starts again.

[sphardy]

Like windows, OSX only supports one connection to a server at a time. To be able to simultaneously connect to the NAS with your user account and via the TM user account then the NAS must advertise itself twice under different names so that each account connects to a different server name.

So you must have the AFP service advertised via bonjour and connect with your user account to "Server (AFP)", and not use the "Server" link which is purely for TM and is advertised separately to enable the simultaneous connections a described in my initial post