Remote backup to Free Agent Drive: OSStatus error -6602 ??

Reposted with minor edits from the Leopard section...
We are trying to back up our desktop Macs to a Seagate Free Agent disk locally attached to a Mac Pro running Mac OS X Server v.10.5.5. The desktop nodes are all iMacs running 10.5.6. When we try to set up Time Machine to use the remote disk, we get an error "Operation could not be completed. OSStatus error -6602"
We get the same error on 3 different nodes whether the disk is shared or NFS mounted. It is not that the Free Agent drive is in power saving shutdown as we have seen this error whilst Time Machine running locally on the Mac Pro was backing up to it. That backup, BTW, was successful.
At this point I wonder if this is some incompatibility with the Seagate firmware. Has anyone else encountered this problem? A quick Google search on the error code turns up scant information -- perhaps something to do with permissions, the details of which I'm not too familiar on Macs.

I may have found a solution... if I connect to the server from the remote machine I see the backup volume with a -1 appended to its name. If I first open that volume from the Finder and then try to set up TM, I can select the Backups-1 volume, authenticate as myself, and TM will back up to that volume. I'm not sure yet whether the connection has to be kept open somehow for unattended backups to work.

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