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10.5: Set up Time Machine on a NAS in three easy steps
Authored by: jg167 on Sun, Mar 8 2009 at 1:30AM PST

I think the hdiutil command shown is wrong. At least in 10.5.6 I used
the info from http://appleclinic.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/time-machine-on-nas/

showing
sudo hdiutil create -size $GIGg -type SPARSEBUNDLE -nospotlight -volname "Backup of My Mac" -fs "Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+" -verbose ./$Computername_MACaddress

this (plus the default write unsupportedNetwork drive thing) worked, TM sees the "drive".