<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Just to clarify - samba is built with avahi support, but it is not built with Avahi support for Apple Time Machine destinations. This <span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);" class="">it is possible with a simple compile time switch As per the samba mailing list, fully Time Machine support needs to have the arg --enable-spotlight in the samba compile configs.</span><pre class="message" style="padding-top: 8px; margin-top: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);">
<a href="https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2019-September/225824.html" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" class="">https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2019-September/225824.html</a></pre><div class="">Enabling this option allows us to use the smb.conf option "fruit:time machine = yes” that signals avahi to advertise a Time Machine destination over mDNS</div></body></html>