# Load in modules (order is critical!) vfs objects = catia fruit streams_xattr fruit:time machine = yes fruit:time machine max size = 300G comment = Time Machine Backup path = /mnt/timemachine available = yes valid users = timemachine browseable = yes guest ok = no writable = yes logging = file # Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d #= Share Definitions = # Append if you want important messages to be sent to syslog too.

max log size = 1000 # We want Samba to only log to /var/log/samba/log. multicast dns register = no # Server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) # Protocol versions client max protocol = default client min protocol = SMB2_02 server max protocol = SMB3 server min protocol = SMB2_02 # This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine that connects log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m # Cap the size of the individual log files (in KiB). Since we are using avahi for this we can disable mdns registration. # Fruit global config fruit:aapl = yes fruit:nfs_aces = no fruit:copyfile = no fruit:model = MacSamba # Permissions on new files and directories are inherited from parent directory inherit permissions = yes # Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of workgroup = WORKGROUP # Samba will automatically 'register' the presence of its server to the rest of the network using mDNS. I ended up with the following working samba configuration. It provides enhanced compatibility with Apple SMB clients and interoperability with a Netatalk 3 AFP fileserver. To make Samba work better with MacOS you can use the vfs_fruit module. If you need to start from scratch check out this manual on how to install samba on Ubuntu. I had samba version 4.15.9 already installed on my server so I just needed to extend the existing configuration. Basically Samba shares the network drive and avahi makes it work with apple devices by implementing Apple’s Zeroconf architecture (also known as “Rendezvous” or “Bonjour”).įinding the right samba configuration took me a while, but with the approach below the network drive automatically showed up in the Time Machine settings and I was able to add it as a Time Machine backup location on my MacBook running MacOS Ventura.įirst of all you need a working samba configuration. During christmas vacations I added a Time Machine network drive for the backup of my MacBook to my Ubuntu 22.04 based home server.įor this you will need samba and avahi-daemon packages.

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