Network drives: A SOLUTION

OK, so far this seems to be working for me.
My solution is based on this one, that someone linked to in another thread:
http://www.infrant.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=71742#71742
However, I failed at step one of that solution, as I have no USB drive. So here is what I did:
1) Split my hard drive into two partitions in Disk Utility
2) Set TimeMachine up to use the second partition
3) Stopped TimeMachine straight away
4) Used terminal to copy all files from the second partition to a shared folder on my network drive
5) Ejected the shared folder
6) Changed the settings on my network drive, to rename the share to the name of the second partition on my Mac
7) Deleted the second partition in Disk Utility
8) Conected to the shared folder on the network drive again
9) Started TimeMachine, and waited until the next backup was due
That time has passed, and it seems that TimeMachine is now backing up to my network drive.
If I click on "Change Drive" (or whatever it is) in TimeMachine, it still does not list the network share, however, it is writing to it, and it also displays "Available 1.0TB of 1.3TB" which is consistent with my network drive.
So, fingers crossed, and I'll report back about how successful it is.

OK, the backup to my network drive completed, and, after the backup, it did another quick backup (which I assume is of the files that changed during the initial backup).
However, when I open TimeMachine, all I see is the "now" view, and don't seem able to go back in time at all.
So, maybe it has worked, maybe it hasn't - I'm not sure.
This is from my system.log:
Oct 28 09:07:45 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Backup requested by automatic scheduler
Oct 28 09:07:45 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Starting standard backup
Oct 28 09:07:45 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Creating disk image /Volumes/Macintosh HD_2/Luke's MackBook Pro_0017f2d8b950.sparsebundle
Oct 28 09:12:14 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Backup requested due to disk attach
Oct 28 09:12:15 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Mounting disk image /Volumes/Macintosh HD_2/Luke's MackBook Pro_0017f2d8b950.sparsebundle
Oct 28 09:12:17 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Disk image mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of Luke's MackBook Pro
Oct 28 09:12:17 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of Luke's MackBook Pro/Backups.backupdb
Oct 28 09:12:17 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
Oct 28 09:12:18 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Trusting backup times for remote backups.
Oct 28 09:12:18 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Backup content size: 29.4 GB excluded items size: 2.9 MB for volume Macintosh HD
Oct 28 09:12:18 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 35.23 GB requested (including padding), 1007.21 GB available
Oct 28 09:12:18 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: MDBackupBegin() returned result (906) > 0, waiting
Oct 28 09:12:34 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Backup requested due to disk attach
Oct 28 09:12:48 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: MDBackupBegin() returned result (909) > 0, waiting
Oct 28 10:07:43 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Backup requested by automatic scheduler
Oct 28 11:07:41 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Backup requested by automatic scheduler
Oct 28 11:29:12 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Copied 190490 files (24.5 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Oct 28 11:29:12 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Trusting backup times for remote backups.
Oct 28 11:29:18 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 281.1 MB requested (including padding), 980.28 GB available
Oct 28 11:33:19 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Copied 564 files (2.6 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Oct 28 11:33:22 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: _lastSnapshotNumber returned nil
Oct 28 11:33:22 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Starting post-backup thinning
Oct 28 11:33:22 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Oct 28 11:33:22 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Backup completed successfully.
Oct 28 11:33:30 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: Ejected Time Machine disk image.
I'm guessing the line:
Oct 28 11:33:22 Lukes-MackBook-Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2604]: _lastSnapshotNumber returned nil
Could be related to the problem (assuming there is a problem).
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Close Lenovo System Update completely when it says it needs to update itself.
Run Command Prompt as Administrator (find it in the start menu, righ-click it and 'Run as administrator').
Type 'subst s: c:\' without the quotes. Replace s: with the drive letter of your network drive, and c: should be an existing regular drive.
Now run Lenovo System Update again and let it update itself.
You'll notice System Update now restarts itself after updating and there are no problems.
Once you are done with System Update, type 'subst s: /D' to delete the substituted virtual drive. Don't worry, this will not delete your actual network drive.
The workaround does the job, but it would be nice to see an actual fix from Lenovo. I have a ThinkPad X230 running 64bit Windows 7 Professional if this is relevant.

Please try either of the workaround.
1. Create a new Admin user, log on in that and then you can install Adobe Reader,
or
2. easier solution is just create a dummy folder on your machine anywhere, lets says Folder name "Dummy" in c:\
not go to command prompt
and type subst I: c:\dummy
and you are all set to go.
once you are done, you can remove that virtual drive mapping by
subst I:\ /d
please let me know if works.

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