Time machine - disk not available

Dear guys,
i've installed osx server on an iMac in my lan, and I activate TimeMachine service on an usb Lacie 500GB.
On my macbook pro (osx lion) I've opened time machine, in disck menu window I've selected time machiene network disk on server and backup start without any problem.
On a second macbook pro (osx mountain lion) I've do same operations but when beckup start I have as error message "Back Up Disc Not Available". I have update disk name, disabled and re-enabled time machine, mount disk with cmd+k and changed disk in time machine but I still have the same problem.
On a third iMac (osx lion) i have the same error, seems that backup works only on my personal macbook. Can anyone help me? any ideas?

I have four macs using time machine on a single 1TB drive connected to Airport Extreme through USB. This morning I got the dreaded error-109 on Mac#1. This occured right after I had added Mac#4 to the bunch. While adding the Mac#4, I mounted my airport disk and then used time machine to select it for backup. I forgot to eject it after it had done the initial backup. That was when the error occured on the Mac#1.
Mac #1 C2D Mini 2009 SL 10.6.2
Mac #2 G5 DP L 10.5.8
Mac #3 MBP 2009 SL 10.6.2
Mac #4 MB C2D2006 SL 10.6.2
First I turned off TM on all of the Macs. I mounted the airport disk again, on Mac#1. I deleted the sparsebundle for Mac#1. I opened TM and selected the airport disk for backup. It is now backing up again on Mac#1. When it is finished, I will turn on TM once again on the other macs and see what happens. There is still a chunk of space left on the airport disk, about 680GB after all of the backups

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