I am trying to backup TM to network drive

I am setting up all my laptops to a use TM via network to a Lacie drive. It worked great for the first one, now it is saying "You do not have appropriate access privileges to save file ".00264a0c2a1e" in folder "LaCie""
I have given this user read and write privileges in the sharing section.
What am I missing?

brilehnhof wrote:
I do not have the harddrive partitioned. I am just using one partition. Is that a problem?
It shouldn't be, as long as all the right users have permission to use it. If all else fails, it's worth a try, though, just to rule that out.
Is it possible your modem will only allow one connection at a time? It doesn't sound like it, but you never know.
You're still getting *"The network backup volume cannot be mounted because there was a problem with the network username or password,"* right?
If so, where/when are you getting it? Is it when you try to select the drive in TM Preferences, or when a backup actually starts? If the latter, see #A1 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum). A clue may be lurking there. If you don't see anything obvious, copy and post them here.

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