Time machine sharepoint and managed preferences

I have added a share point as a time machine backup destination, and it shows up with Bonjour users. But I am setting up some machines with managed preferences, and I add the time machine volume in the time machine managed preferences pane, and supply the whole network path (afp://server.com/TimeMachine).
The settings are added to the managed machine, but it can't mount the backup destination. Gives me error "The backup disk is not available".
This error doesn't show when the disk is manually chosen in Time Machine preferences on non-managed computers.
Any ideas?

it sounds like you are using an OS X server. I suggest you post in the Snow leopard server forum
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=264
and please fill in your profile to indicate what hardware and software you are running.

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