Time Machine, AppleScript, and Samba
I have a small HP MicroServer running CentOS Linux I use mostly as a file server. I recently slapped on a MediaSonic ProBox I picked up so I could make use of some older matched drives (from an old ReadyNAS box and an earlier MicroServer) for less critical stuff, like a Time Machine backup. (I’m also already mirroring critical directories using SyncThing , and have off-site encrypted backups of that, too.) Some of this stuff was a nightmare to figure out, so, the steps I took are presented here, in hopes it helps someone else... Configuring Samba I’m connecting my Mac OS X computers (El Capitan 10.11.x (“Air-Core-i5”; Mavericks 10.9.x; one old Core 2 Duo MacBook running Lion 10.7.x) to a CentOS 6.9 server using Samba (“Gen8NAS” with IP address 192.168.66.10). Install Samba $ sudo yum -y install samba samba-client Configure Samba The only real “gotcha” here was the ‘ msdfs root = yes ’ entry, which eliminated an error I was getting on OS X, “the share does not exist on t