Hi guys
I've been running netatalk on my T50 for the last few years for Time Machine backups. As Samba now has support for TM I wanted to see if I could switch to using it for both my Windows and Mac backups so I could retire Netatalk.
While the setup went fine I have this issue that I can't seem to fix. I can create the initial backup no problem (from a Sierra machine) but subsequent backups fail instantly with an error that the backup disk isn't available. If I connect to the server in Finder with the correct login I can see the shares so authentication is working. But if I try to mount the Time Machine folder it disappears. If I delete the sparsebundle containing the backup I can be mounted fine again. So the existence of the backup is the root problem. But why?
I tried many configs following the advice of others with similar problems (error 13 when trying to mount after the initial backup) but none of the suggestions have worked so far.
Has anyone had this issue and could offer some advice about how to get this working? I've rolled back to my previous config so I don't have my last smb.conf but as an example of what I have tried, I took the config from this thread in it's entirety, changing only the share path and user and it still failed in the exact same way.
None of the guides I read mentioned having to download the vfs modules for Samba, but I've done this.
I've been running netatalk on my T50 for the last few years for Time Machine backups. As Samba now has support for TM I wanted to see if I could switch to using it for both my Windows and Mac backups so I could retire Netatalk.
While the setup went fine I have this issue that I can't seem to fix. I can create the initial backup no problem (from a Sierra machine) but subsequent backups fail instantly with an error that the backup disk isn't available. If I connect to the server in Finder with the correct login I can see the shares so authentication is working. But if I try to mount the Time Machine folder it disappears. If I delete the sparsebundle containing the backup I can be mounted fine again. So the existence of the backup is the root problem. But why?
I tried many configs following the advice of others with similar problems (error 13 when trying to mount after the initial backup) but none of the suggestions have worked so far.
Has anyone had this issue and could offer some advice about how to get this working? I've rolled back to my previous config so I don't have my last smb.conf but as an example of what I have tried, I took the config from this thread in it's entirety, changing only the share path and user and it still failed in the exact same way.
None of the guides I read mentioned having to download the vfs modules for Samba, but I've done this.