Normal user can't connect to Time Machine drive on another machine

Hi guys, get the feeling I've missed something simple…
1. Physically attached big external drive to 'server' machine
2. Set up Time Machine to use external drive both on server and from my laptop (by mounting on desktop)
Everything happy.
3. On server did chgrp for the external drive to a group which user J is in
J can see (and write to) the drive when logged into server, but not when logging into server from her laptop. I can see drive from her laptop but only when attaching to server as me.
4. Undid 3 and tried adding her username to drive instead via Get Info. Same deal.
So I'm the only remote user which can see the drive. What did I miss?
All machines 10.6.1
Cheers

Tom Robinson5 wrote:
Thanks James. I've set up File Sharing on the destination as you say. On the source I can only see the destination when connecting as my user ID, not as a different account—despite setting up permissions for this.
Hmm. I've not done TM backups this way, but you might try to see if it's sensitive to names this way, as it often is with Time Capsules and drives attached to Airport Extremes.
Start with the Computer name (System Preferences > Sharing). Keep it short, use only numbers and letters -- no spaces, punctuation, or special characters. Then click Edit and make the corresponding change to the Local Hostname. This makes no sense, of course, but often works anyhow!

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