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Sorry for the late, late response, but yes, SMB Workgroup is back to "WORKGROUP" I set `extra parameters` to `--hostname timemachine` -- and that's how it appears in Finder. I used `Custom: br0 -- Main Network`, set a fixed IP address, not sure what else, and I dont' remember how I came to this conclusion, think I took some pieces from one config and some from another from this plug-in's GitHub README

Ah I think I figured it out. If you toggle the switch at the top right for 'Advanced View', then you can specify the hostname of the container: And I left "ADVERTISED_HOSTNAME" blank. But then I believe you lose Avahi broadcasting on the host, so I had to manually connect to my unRAID array -- it didn't show up under Network or on the left panel in Finder.

Do you mean the default settings that come with the Docker installation? Or one of the `docker run` templates found in the repo's README for Samba or Avahi? What was your configuration? Did you input TIMEMACHINE.local anywhere, or did it just magically appear ? Here's my Container settings:

Sorry, see my update to the post. Seems I was able to get it to mostly work, just not entirely to my expectations.

I have not been able to consistently get Time Machine on unRAID to work. I'm on a M1 MBP, and I've tried Time Machine via Samba Share and via the Docker container. Time Machine on the Mac will either not recognize the volume on unRAID, or it mounts it, and just spins, attempting to create a backup, and then fails. Is there a vanilla Docker config I can try that seems to work for most people? I know there are a few specified in the README, and I'm wondering if it's a problem with my Network configuration. Should I provide a dump of my unRAID settings for review? EDIT: Of course, as soon as I make a post about my failures, I went back through the thread, and tried some different things -- like the Custom 'br0' bridge connection, and changing 'WORKGROUP' to 'TM-WORKGROUP' to separate it from unRAID's Samba 'WORKGROUP', and setting a static IP. Seems to be writing to the TM volume now. However, a few things are weird. Successful TM Endpoint Failed TM Endpoint: Anyway to get it to not randomly generate a name like in the screenshot? CAFE6D6707F6, etc.? I was hoping to use 'timemachine-smb', which is what Advertised Hostname is set to. Is that not correct? I'm not able to 'Connect As' for that endpoint, it just eventually times out with this error: Here's the container's logs from startup: chpasswd: password for 'timemachine' changed dbus-daemon[41]: [system] org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Failed to set fd limit to 65536: Operation not permitted Found user 'avahi' (UID 86) and group 'avahi' (GID 86). Successfully dropped root privileges. avahi-daemon 0.8 starting up. WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns! Loading service file /etc/avahi/services/smbd.service. Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.0.125. New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS. Joining mDNS multicast group on interface lo.IPv4 with address 127.0.0.1. New relevant interface lo.IPv4 for mDNS. Network interface enumeration completed. Registering new address record for 192.168.0.125 on eth0.IPv4. Registering new address record for 127.0.0.1 on lo.IPv4. Server startup complete. Host name is cafe6d67d7f6.local. Local service cookie is 152858969. Service "timemachine-smb" (/etc/avahi/services/smbd.service) successfully established. INFO: CUSTOM_SMB_CONF=false; generating [global] section of /etc/samba/smb.conf... INFO: Creating /var/log/samba/cores INFO: Avahi - generating base configuration in /etc/avahi/services/smbd.service... INFO: Avahi - using timemachine-smb as hostname. INFO: Avahi - adding the 'dk0', 'TimeMachine' share txt-record to /etc/avahi/services/smbd.service... INFO: Group timemachine doesn't exist; creating... INFO: User timemachine doesn't exist; creating... INFO: Using default password: timemachine INFO: INFO: CUSTOM_SMB_CONF=false; generating [TimeMachine] section of /etc/samba/smb.conf... INFO: Samba - Created Added user timemachine. INFO: Samba - Enabled user timemachine. INFO: Samba - setting password INFO: SET_PERMISSIONS=false; not setting ownership and permissions for /opt/timemachine INFO: Avahi - completing the configuration in /etc/avahi/services/smbd.service... INFO: running test for xattr support on your time machine persistent storage location... INFO: xattr test successful - your persistent data store supports xattrs INFO: Detected filesystem for /opt/timemachine is fuse.shfs INFO: entrypoint complete; executing 's6-svscan /etc/s6' dbus socket not yet available; sleeping... nmbd version 4.18.5 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2023 smbd version 4.18.5 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2023 INFO: Profiling support unavailable in this build. ***** Samba name server CAFE6D67D7F6 is now a local master browser for workgroup TM-WORKGROUP on subnet 192.168.0.125 ***** fruit_get_bandsize: Didn't find band-size key in [/opt/timemachine/5AB96E66-72A7-5AF2-8CD9-9CED472FCD81_2023-10-06-102340.sparsebundle/Info.plist] fruit_tmsize_do_dirent: Processing sparsebundle [5AB96E66-72A7-5AF2-8CD9-9CED472FCD81_2023-10-06-102340.sparsebundle] failed

I'm having similar problems. I have a different user account for Timemachine Docker share, and for the rest of the unRAID shares. I may be overcomplicating things, but should I use one LAN port for Docker (including Timemachine container), and the other for the rest of the user shares? Curious how people approach this. Also, since AFP is deprecated, should I disable the avahi process? Or is avahi necessary for TimeMachine/SMB?

You could try `0`: Sources: https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/nmbd.8.html https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/smbcontrol.1.html The value will override any value that is set for loglevel in `<prefix>/etc/smb.conf` Hope that helps!

Under 3.3.2 Removing data disk(s), I've corrected the 'Reset the array configuration' in the quoted text: Continuing under '3.3.2 ...' > 'Notes:', bullet point 8, the links to the User Scripts Forum Post is dead (aforementioned link corrected), along with some links to sub-scripts within like clearing an array drive. I'm going to presume the bigger issue is the hard-coding of a release version in the URL's linking to the Wiki/Manual release version, e.g.: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/UnRAID_6_2/Storage_Management#Reset_the_array_configuration

NFS just seems a bit too involved, especially when there's AFP for a Mac... I wasn't able to get r/w exporting of my shares over NFS, since in 5.0 beta you can't configure the exports through the webUI. Any 5.0 users know how to do that? Do I need to manually enter it to the go script? That seems a bit annoying when you can configure user permissions for Samba and AFP...

It doesn't. My user names are not the same on the two boxes and I'm able to read/write. Your files only technically need to be owned by the group users, which all your unfair user accounts are a part of. Does Samba work for you? And are you using AFP on your Mac? Trying setting all protocols to secure and giving the same user read/write on all protocols. Then retry on your Mac with samba or AFP and see if that helps.

Wow, I could kill a weekend transposing guitar tabs to beep songs.

Yea, 0 is root, so that'd make sense why you were only able to write to the shares as root.

I have only one linux machine, but I have written to the user shares from a windows machine. I do believe I may have generated confusion in my initial post. The username on my linux machine is not the same as the username of the unraid box. I have modified my previous post to reflect that. It doesn't need to as long as you also provide a password (if required). Maybe try not requiring a password, or allowing a Guest to r/w to the share. I'd imagine you also don't have that username on Windows, correct? So if you can connect from Windows to the Linux user share, you should be able to from unRAID.

Are you able to mount this NFS share on another machine and write to it as your Linux username? Just want to make sure of this before we proceed on unRAID.

MIRs are a PITA anyways. I either forget, or it takes 8 weeks so by the time it arrives, they may not have sent it as I probably would have forgotten anyways lol.