Hey all,
I’ve reurposed my old 2011 MBP as a home “server” to run iTunes etc, and it’d also be nice if I could use it to share a drive for a Time Machine network share.
I’ve tried sharing both a whole disk and a folder on it, with the TM option set in the shares “advanced” dialog, and tried authenticating both with my username/password and via Apple ID - I can mount the share in finder and write changes, it lets me select the share in TM setup but when it tries to do the first backup it fails with auth failure.
Is this a known issue? I notice the apple doc for Mojave says the drive should be formatted as APFS but because it’s spinning rust on High Sierra it’s still HFS+. This presumbly relates to the host sharing the disk though, not the client.
Any thoughts/tips would be appreciated.
I’ve reurposed my old 2011 MBP as a home “server” to run iTunes etc, and it’d also be nice if I could use it to share a drive for a Time Machine network share.
I’ve tried sharing both a whole disk and a folder on it, with the TM option set in the shares “advanced” dialog, and tried authenticating both with my username/password and via Apple ID - I can mount the share in finder and write changes, it lets me select the share in TM setup but when it tries to do the first backup it fails with auth failure.
Is this a known issue? I notice the apple doc for Mojave says the drive should be formatted as APFS but because it’s spinning rust on High Sierra it’s still HFS+. This presumbly relates to the host sharing the disk though, not the client.
Any thoughts/tips would be appreciated.