Tag Archive for 'Samba'

Time Machine Backup to Samba

Time Machine is a backup utility developed by Apple. It is included in Mac OS X since MAC OS X version 10.5 alias “Leopard”. The software is designed to work with the Time Capsule as well as other internal or external drives.

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Samba hide Thumbs.db

I have some samba servers with a lot of different shares, all thees share are accessed from different systems like Windows MAC OS X and Linux. Each system let some garbage like: Continue reading ‘Samba hide Thumbs.db’

Samba passwd smbpasswd and tdbsam

Some commands to convert samba backend password-databases.

If you use “passdb backend = smbpasswd” in your smb.conf you must convert your system-user accounts to smbpasswd: Continue reading ‘Samba passwd smbpasswd and tdbsam’