Network backup server with network users

I have a few problems with my backup server:
I was waiting for years to be able to backup easily all the computers of my research lab. This is what I have done after having installed Leopard on all the machines.
Disks: I have setup a RAID 1 array with two 1TB firewire 800 hard drives. The drives have been formated as GUID. Next, I have created one folder for each computer to backup.
Users: I didn't want to create users on my backup server, so I have added our department server (XServe G4/10.4 server) as an open directory server for ma backup server. In system preferences>sharing>AFP, i have added the folders as shares, and given read/write permissions to my network users (1 user/1 share).
Clients: on each client, the share has been mounted and declared as 'time machine'.
The problems: Everything worked flawlessly for a couple of weeks… but now
Shares are disappearing in my system pref>sharing panel. Some of them can be re-shared, but a few simply don't want to. Users permissions sometime change to unknown user.
Can anyone help?
Configuration: Backup server = core 2 duo white iMac 24" with leopard client.
Clients: G4 & G5 towers, G5 and Intel iMacs

It appears that AFP suffers from bugs in Leopard, i.e. sharepoints are badly handled.
The solution is described here:
http://www.installationexperiences.com/?p=81
This is a copy of the page:
Use the dscl command in the terminal application to delete duplicate SharePoint names if your Apple Mac OS X Leopard system is advertising multiple or suffixed shares (-1, -2, etc). Execute sudo dscl, then cd /Local/Default/SharePoints. With an ls, you can see the share names. Stop file sharing from the Sharing Preferences pane, remove the share from the Shared Folders window and uncheck Shared Folder from Get Info on the folder or volume being shared. Next ls in dscl again and if there are still duplicates, delete them all with delete yoursharename in dscl. Next restart File Sharing in Preferences and add shares with the Shared Folders checkbox in the Get Info window. Do not add shares with Shared Folders in the File Sharing Preferences. Leopard has a problem that somehow causes APF and SAMBA SMB shares to be duplicated with a suffix of -1, -2, -3, etc. Mac OS X shows the share with the highest suffix, SMB browsers show all the share names. The above instructions will fix AFP problems. To fix SMB problems, it might be necessary to use the Finder or Terminal to delete all the share name files in /var/samba/shares while File Sharing is turned off. Leopard will re-create all the samba files based on the SharePoints viewable with dscl.
Apple doesn’t seem to be aware of this issue. At least one other person is having this problem as discussed in the Apple Forums Thread 1316884. First level and “product specialist” at Apple Support did not know how to fix this issue. The “product specialist” stated that it was caused by an “echo” due to “redundant” use of Screen Sharing, File Sharing, Web Sharing and Remote Login. According to the Specialist, “that many services are not to be used simultaneously”. Of course, we know that Specialist was wrong.
It appears the problem is inconsistent information between the Shared Folders list in the File Sharing Preferences pane and the check box in the Get Info window. It has also been noticed that shares disappear from the Shared Folders File Sharing Preferences when they are still advertised on the network. By using the share folder check box in Get Info, the problems in the Shared Folders pane may be avoided. In other words, don’t pay any attention to the Shared Folders list. Do all sharing and permissions from the Get Info window.
This problem was experienced trying to establish a file server system in the home. The need is for file and print services available to Windows XP, Linux and Mac OS X systems. An iMac and a MacBook Pro were used to set up the system and it has not been easy. SMB sharing was all but abandoned when the multiple shares were showing up on the Windows XP systems. When the share suffixes showed up on AFP shares on the MacBook Pro, it was very disappointing. This workaround to the Leopard bug may rekindle the effort to establish a Leopard file server for Windows XP clients.
Thanks to a friend, that can fix all things computer, who revealed the dscl utility.
And personal thanks to Steph Mons

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How is the security setup on the TC?
The security is a bit tricky.. I must admit since I run windows computer in the network, that I simply turn on the guest account to read and write access. For a business setup that might not be adequate but it allows me full access to all the files.
If you setup the TC with user accounts then you are in trouble. That makes it very difficult to access, especially if one person already has the file open you may find a second user cannot login. I am not sure as I have avoided the security. IMHO it is meaningless.. since anyone with physical access to the TC can press the reset for one second and has full access.. and can add or change passwords.

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