Hello everyone,
This post is mostly informational and will describe what I had to do to get this to work. I spent several hours last night following various guides I found via Google searches but none of them helped out with the error I was getting when I would use the tmutil command. The error is:
incompatible file system type: smbfs (error 45)
The links I found said to use the DiskUtility application to create the sparsebundle file. This never worked. I then had an idea to instead use the hdiutil command line application to create the sparsebundle file. That worked perfectly.
hdiutil create -size 200g -fs HFS+j -volname "Time Machine" NAME_XXXXXXXXXXXX.sparsebundle
NAME is the name of your Mac machine, the X's are the MAC address of the Ethernet interface that you use to connect to your network. I use wireless, so I grabbed the en1 MAC. If you use wired then the en0 is for you. Drop the :'s in the MAC address.
Once I created the sparsebundle file I just copied it over to my Windows 8 shared folder I had previously created and mounted to my Mac OS X machine.
Then I used the sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/Time\ Machine/ command to point Time Machine to this and it worked perfectly.
As said before, this post is mostly information since I was unable to find help with the error I was getting. I will answer any questions anyone has on this.
Dave
This post is mostly informational and will describe what I had to do to get this to work. I spent several hours last night following various guides I found via Google searches but none of them helped out with the error I was getting when I would use the tmutil command. The error is:
incompatible file system type: smbfs (error 45)
The links I found said to use the DiskUtility application to create the sparsebundle file. This never worked. I then had an idea to instead use the hdiutil command line application to create the sparsebundle file. That worked perfectly.
hdiutil create -size 200g -fs HFS+j -volname "Time Machine" NAME_XXXXXXXXXXXX.sparsebundle
NAME is the name of your Mac machine, the X's are the MAC address of the Ethernet interface that you use to connect to your network. I use wireless, so I grabbed the en1 MAC. If you use wired then the en0 is for you. Drop the :'s in the MAC address.
Once I created the sparsebundle file I just copied it over to my Windows 8 shared folder I had previously created and mounted to my Mac OS X machine.
Then I used the sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/Time\ Machine/ command to point Time Machine to this and it worked perfectly.
As said before, this post is mostly information since I was unable to find help with the error I was getting. I will answer any questions anyone has on this.
Dave
