#SERVER RESPONSE ERROR NETATALK HOW TO#
#SERVER RESPONSE ERROR NETATALK UPDATE#

As a result SAMBA is not yet going to have solved any issues still remaining. However as far as I can tell the SAMBA team have not yet finished this work and therefore even if a NAS maker has included the very latest version of SAMBA it will not yet have the required changes.

#SERVER RESPONSE ERROR NETATALK HOW TO#

NAS makers use another different open source program called SAMBA to implement SMB support and the SAMBA team have been working on incorporating the official requirements published by Apple on how to do this. This is officially supported using Apple's Server.app but not officially supported on a Time Capsule. Read-on…Īs you have been trying it is now possible in theory to do Time Machine backups to a Time Machine Server via SMB instead of AFP. Furthermore in more recent times Apple have actually been more forthcoming and supportive of the efforts of NAS makers to do this. Where John Galt is however being overly pessimistic is that Apple do not forbid NAS makers from providing Time Machine capability and for most people it has historically been 'adequate'. a clone as well as a Time Machine backup. On the topic of backups you should always test they can be successfully used to do a restoration and should consider having two different backup systems e.g. Despite this Time Machine over AFP to a NAS works well enough for many people. Worse still the NAS makers may not have the latest version of Netatalk in their products. Therefore Netatalk cannot be guaranteed to be 100% compatible.

#SERVER RESPONSE ERROR NETATALK UPDATE#

However where John Galt is correct is that Netatalk have done this via much guesswork as to what Apple are doing and Apple also have a nasty habit of moving the goal posts each time they update the Mac operating system. Most NAS makers use an open source program called Netatalk to provide their AFP service and the Netatalk team have also added the ability for it to act as a Time Machine Server. Time Machine Servers required using an AFP network share. The original Time Machine feature supported using either a local HFS+ formatted hard drive or a genuine Apple Mac running Server.app and acting as a Time Machine Server, or an Apple Time Capsule also acting as a Time Machine Server. John Galt's reply is neither absolutely accurate nor absolutely inaccurate.

Server response error netatalk