Receiving error (OSStatus error -6602.) setting up time machine on NAS

I have a Macbook Air and a 1TB WD My Worldbook and have been unable to setup time machine for backups, I keep receiving the following error - Operation could not be completed. (OSStatus error -6602.) It is connected to my airport extreme - dual band any thoughts on what I need to do to get this to work. I had to uninstall itunes 10 and downgrade to 9.2.1 so I can see my shared folder and what saved me was that I manually copied my itunes library to the network drive.
I am new to Macs and know tech basics so please be gentle.
Thanks for any insight.
mzbeta

I had the same problem. WD does indeed support Time Machine set up on the WD World.
The acrobat file walking you through the 15 second set up [hurrah] can be found here: http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/updates/?family=mbworld [click on the user guide link to download].
My problem was that I was trying to login using my user name rather than the wd_backup that is required via Time Machine.... did not read the set up instructions very carefully.

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I've used Disk Utility to verify both my local disk and my time machine disk (external USB drive).
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Nov 26 03:07:31 computerName com.apple.backupd[522]: Starting standard backup
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evan_j wrote:
Hi Pondini!
Thanks for your help.
I added the entire Time Machine disk to the spotlight privacy exception, waited for a bit, and removed it. From this line, I assume that it triggered the re-indexing of the drive:
Nov 27 10:26:58 computerName mds[34]: (Normal) DiskStore: Creating index for /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
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