Network drives and time machine with Lion

Since upgrading to Lion my MyBookWorld network drive is no longer working with time machine. The drive is recognised as being there by finder and time machine but when I try and connect to it as registered user there is a warning saying There was a problem connecting to the server "MyBookWorld.Local". This drive was working fine until I upgraded to lion. There is no new firmware from Wesern Digital for the disc. It looks like that will be the solution. does anyone have any idea when that may be forthcoming?

Please follow these instructions:
Lion: Connecting to legacy (pre-Lion) AFP services - and Mac OS X (server):
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3258472

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