Now the next command will create the sparsebundle that time machine needs to make the whole thing work. I choose 100GB my mac only has 100GB partition. This depends on your setup and how much space you have on your server. Now you have to ask yourself how much space to allocate to the time machine back up. Write this number down without the colons. After hitting return the command should have given you something like ether 00:00:45:12:8a:91. Next Open the terminal (Finder->Applications->Utilities->Terminal) and type in ‘ifconfig en0 | grep ether’. This message is fine because it created a file that we needed for this to work. it now should run for a little bit and give you an error saying that it cannot create image error. If it doesn’t backup automatically then make sure that the ‘Show time Machine status in the menu bar’ is checked and click on the round clock on the menu bar at the top of the OSX screen and click on back up now. Now turn time machine on and it will wait 2 minutes before running the back up. Select the directory that you have just mounted. If you have mounted the directory correctly it should show up when you click on Change Disk. Now open time machine (Finder->Applications->System Preferences->Time Machine) and click on change disk. The prompt will ask you for the password. I would then enter in for the server address then I would click on the connect button.
WORD FOR MAC SAMBA CAN NOT SAVE PASSWORD
So lets say my my username to access the server is called ‘willy’ and the password is ‘wonka’. The username and password was set up by reading the samba or windows file sharing like. For the Server enter in For example my server is called ‘Bob’ and my OSX computer name is called ‘Hcomp’. Open Finder and click on G0->Connect to server in the finder menubar at the top. It now should be possible for time machine to show the samba shares and other non OSX shares, but before we can use these shares we have to mount them. Open up Terminal (Finder->Applications->Utilities->Terminal) and enter in the command ‘defaults write TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1’. Now we need to make it possible for timemachine to access our folders on our network. My computer is called Hcomp ( you can change the name of your computer in OSX by going to System Preferences->Sharing) so I create a directory called Hcomp on my server. I like to use the name of the OSX computer as the directory.
Also make certain that the shares have read write access! Now create a directory for each OSX computer that you will be using time machine on the server of windows share. I hope that you have already set up your samba server or windows share on the network if not please read the Samba-Howto or windows file sharing.
WORD FOR MAC SAMBA CAN NOT SAVE HOW TO
This is a tutorial on how to use OSX 10.5.2 time machine with a Linux Server/Windows Server/Windows Share.
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