My Time Machine can't see/connect to my NAS Thecus

Hello,
I have NAS Thecus N7700Pro V2.
I got it to be my network storage and I enabled teh AFP in my NAS to be able to use my Time Machine backup.
My current OS is Lion 10.7.5.
When I open teh Time Machine and try to connect it to my NAS it can't see it.
Please advise.
Thanks!

Thanks - that worked - although the solution requires a little updating which was mentioned further down that post. In summary it is now this:
1. Create a sparsebundle image manually on your local system. Open a terminal window and enter:
hdiutil create -size $SIZESPEC -fs HFS+J -type SPARSEBUNDLE -volname "Backup of $MACHINENAME" $MACHINENAME_$MACADDRESS.sparsebundle
Where $SIZESPEC is the size of the backup volume (followed by the lowercase letter g if Gigabytes, e.g. 100g), and $MACHINENAME_$MAC_ADRESS is your Mac's name followed by an underscore and then your Mac's MAC Address (otherwise known as its Ethernet ID; visible in the Network System Preferences panel), but without the colons. So if your Mac is named MyMac, and the Network System Preferences panel lists your Ethernet ID as 00:18:b3:11:84:dd, then you would use MyMac_0018b31184dd for the name of the sparsebundle.
The -size parameter can probably be as large as you want, now that Apple has evidently fixed the sparsebundle issues that were causing all but the most recent backup to be dumped. However, you can also specify a smaller size if you (like me) want to create a hard limit for the amount of space your Time Machine backups will take on your network drive. hdiutil does have a -resize option if you need to utilize that later.
2. Create and set permissions on your network share. Just make sure you have read/write permissions set on whichever SMB/AFP share you're going to dump this to.
3. Copy the sparsebundle to the network share root. Easy enough. Mount your network share and copy it over. I used this Terminal command after the MyBackup share was mounted: cp -r mymachine_0017f2c8426b.sparsebundle /Volumes/MyBackup/. Or just use the regular UI to copy and paste (it worked for me).

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Type : Disk
Partition Map Scheme : GUID Partition Table
Disk Identifier : disk2
Media Name : Hitachi HDS721010KLA330 Media
Media Type : Generic
Connection Bus : USB
USB Serial Number : 200904130782
Device Tree : /PCI0@0/USB7@1D,7/@2:0
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Ejectable : Yes
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : No
Location : External
Total Capacity : 931.5 GB (1,000,204,886,016 Bytes)
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported
Disk Number : 2
Partition Number : 0
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#1
Name : APconfig
Type : Volume
Disk Identifier : disk2s1
Mount Point : /Volumes/APconfig
File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
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Used : 20.5 MB (21,479,424 Bytes)
Number of Files : 43
Number of Folders : 9
Owners Enabled : No
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : Yes
Disk Number : 2
Partition Number : 1
#2
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Disk Identifier : disk2s2
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File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : USB
Device Tree : /PCI0@0/USB7@1D,7/@2:2
Writable : Yes
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Free Space : 1,003.5 MB (1,052,266,496 Bytes)
Used : 20.5 MB (21,475,328 Bytes)
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Number of Folders : 9
Owners Enabled : No
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Can Be Formatted : Yes
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Journaled : Yes
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Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : Yes
Disk Number : 2
Partition Number : 3
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Partition Number : 0
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Used : 104.0 GB (111,650,672,640 Bytes)
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Number of Folders : 209,366
Owners Enabled : Yes
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Repair Permissions : No
Can Be Verified : Yes
Can Be Repaired : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : Yes
Disk Number : 3
Partition Number : 2
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I found this when searching Apple's web site but it is old, October 2007, and said it could not be done. Has this changed since then?
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Time Machine in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard can be used to back up to many kinds of Mac OS Extended-formatted drives, but it does not support AirPort Extreme's AirPort Disk feature.
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