Mounting network share for backup?

Hi all
I have WebHelp Desk running on a mac mini (10.6.8 Server) and I want to have it back up to an AFP share on our file server server (Intel Xserve 10.6.8). I can mount the share on the mini, point WHD at it and it backs-up its DB to that share. My problem comes when I log out. Once that log out is done, WHD doesn't see the share any more so the back-ups fail. Leaving the user logged in is one option but is a security risk. Does anyone have a suggestion?
Thanks!

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