![]() By matching up the UIDs within the Ubuntu machine with the Mac mini’s UIDs of the data to be served it all worked pretty well. I ended up installing VirtualBox, with Ubuntu Server doing the SAMBA part. So, it was time to upgrade… First attemptĪfter a week or so of fishing around, it became evident that SAMBA was not going to be a simple MacPorts or Homebrew experience. The Mac mini, coupled with TimeMachine, proved a great choice.Įventually, though Microsoft made it harder to enable SMB v1, then impossible. This ran absolutely wonderfully, using SMB v1, all the while we had WinXP. Oh dear, oh dear!Īfter trying Apple’s Server product on a Mac mini, and failing, I ended up using Homebrew to compile SAMBA. ![]() Then SAMBA went GPL licensed and Apple had to develop their own SMB code. My understanding of the history is that SAMBA was originally MIT or BSD licensed - and Apple used it. There’s quite a bit of history to running SMB file sharing on OSX. ![]() Photo by Javi Hoffens on Unsplash A little history ![]()
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