Samba share

Hello,

So I'm thinking of running a samba server to share files over my network. I don't have a Mac yet but I'm going to get a MacBook Pro in the near future so I wanted to make sure OS X was compatible with a samba server. In particular, I also want to make sure that it plays nicely with Time Machine. Anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks,
Zenze

 

Awesome, thats what I was hoping to hear.

But I was talking about the Time Machine backup utility. One of the main reasons that I would be setting up a network file server (doesn't need to be samba necessarily) is so I have a place to backup all my computers easily. If I couldn't backup my laptop via whatever I use that would be a problem.

 

Sorry if I was unclear... I am not using a Time Capsule. I have a linux samba server set up that I am using to store files on and share them between computers on the LAN. I just wanted to make sure that Time Machine would properly with this.

After farther searching I found that by default it will not, but running this will make it work:

Code:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

I have no way of trying it out, but has anyone tried this?