Confirmed: 7.3.1 Firmware Tightens Disk Sharing Via Internet

My AEBS has a USB hard drive connected to it and shared out with password protection.
With the 7.2.1 AEBS firmware, I could connect to this hard drive over the Internet by doing Go > Connect to Server > afp://ip.ip.ip.ip and clicking Connect. I'd then be prompted for my password to connect to the hard drive.
But when I upgraded my AEBS firmware to 7.3.1, this functionality no longer works. It appears that the only way to do this in 7.3.1 is to set up port mapping and map some port number (5678, for example) to port 548 of the AEBS' internal IP address. If I do that, then I am able to connect by doing Go > Connect to Server > afp://ip.ip.ip.ip:port and clicking Connect and then entering the password.
Has anyone else tried this?

The .sparsebundle was visible in Finder & ctrl+click revealed its contents, so disk access permissions were OK. The problem was that Time Machine seemed to lose recognition of this particular .sparsebundle as being my MBP's backup file.
So, I've deleted the file & started backing-up fresh from today. This incident is not a real problem, as I've only had TC set up for a couple of weeks. However, I just hope that these teething problems do not repeat with every subsequent TC software or firmware update, otherwise this would become a single point of failure and the benefits of automated backup via TC would be lost.
Best
Keith..

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