Time Machine / OS X Server 10.6.1 / Computer Account

I'm trying to run TM on a 10.6.1 server to back up my 3 Macbooks at home (among other services). When I add a computer to WGM and update the TM policy to back up to a specific location, the macbook fails to back up with:
11/4/09 5:56:58 PM com.apple.backupd[227] Starting standard backup
11/4/09 5:56:58 PM com.apple.backupd[227] Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://[email protected]/Backups/
11/4/09 5:56:58 PM com.apple.backupd[227] NetAuthConnectToServerSync failed with error: 80 for url: afp://[email protected]/Backups/
11/4/09 5:57:03 PM com.apple.backupd[227] Backup failed with error: 19
I can open the URL from the macbook and have access to create/read files/directories.
The TM configuration on the server is, apparently, being downloaded to the macbook since its an enforced backup configuration.
If I manually configure TM from the macbook (rather than using WGM on the server) to back up to the same share, it builds the bundle and starts up:
11/4/09 7:30:31 PM com.apple.backupd[155] Starting standard backup
11/4/09 7:30:31 PM com.apple.backupd[155] Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://[email protected]/Backups
11/4/09 7:30:32 PM com.apple.backupd[155] Mounted network destination using URL: afp://[email protected]/Backups
11/4/09 7:30:32 PM com.apple.backupd[155] Creating disk image /Volumes/Backups/Sharona.sparsebundle
So what am I doing wrong here?

you really ought to ask this in the OS X server forum.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=264

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