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Netgear Stora and Time Machine Setup

Having just got a Netgear Stora I wanted to use it as my time machine backup (I have an old ibook G4 and 10.5 so some of this may or may not work for 10.6 - i haven't tried it!). It turns out this isn't a simple operation (despite ease of use supposedly being a big selling feature of the Stora...). Here are the steps I eventually worked my way through to get this working: