[MacTUG] Time Machine share on High Sierra and sharing with older macs

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

A further note, when I turned off SMB I could not back up my newer macs to my Time Machine Server. However, once my old El Cap mac found the mac server and had started backing up to it, re-enabling SMB service allowed the newer macs to backup to it too. What a pain. The El Cap mac is going to be upgraded soon tho, so this sort of shenanigan will stop! (knocks wood to hope not replaced by different shinanigans)

BTW: when turning SMB on or off in High Sierra to deal with this malarky, you need to do it in both in the “File Sharing” options section and the advanced options of the shared file/drive (which you get at by right-clicking the Shared Folder that you are using)



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Donald Duff-McCracken
Technical Services Manager
Mapping, Analysis & Design
Faculty of Environment
University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 x32151
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From: Donald Duff-McCracken <dsmccrac at uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at 3:06 PM
To: MacTUG <mactug at mailman.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Time Machine share on High Sierra and sharing with older macs

I have a mac I am using as a time machine server. I updated it to High Sierra and then an El Cap mac (that I cant update) could not find the share. Turns out you have to turn off SMB sharing as El cap and the Sierras don’t like talking that way. A good workaround until I replace that El Cap device.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8154649

PS: A nice thing about using a High Sierra Mac as a time machine server is you do not need to buy Server.app anymore for this as functioning as a time machine server is built into highseirra -- https://www.kirkville.com/how-to-use-time-machine-server-in-macos-high-sierra/

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Donald Duff-McCracken
Technical Services Manager
Mapping, Analysis & Design
Faculty of Environment
University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 x32151
https://uwaterloo.ca/environment-computing/about/people
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