This time Apple have actually provided official technical information allowing other software developers to make sure their SMB implementation is able to do the things Time Machine needs. Sierra can now backup over SMB to a suitable SMB server.Ī suitable SMB server does not have to be a genuine Mac server. When Sierra came out Apple finally resolved this issue. I did therefore each year a new version of OS X came out remind them of this via the beta-test program. With the aforementioned not so subtle hints that AFP was doomed this left a gapping hole. Initially this resulted in a potential problem since they had originally left Time Machine still only able to work over AFP and not SMB. Whilst I cannot guarantee it, I suspect that Apple have stopped making changes to AFP since they have dropped some not so subtle hints that they intend to discontinue AFP at some point.Īpple now want everyone to use SMB instead and have been saying so for the last few years. Where the QNAP might fall down a bit is that I believe they are not as quick at updating their version of Netatalk software as for example NetGear.Īs others have mentioned in the past Apple has made subtle changes to the AFP protocol and this means the Netatalk project developers have had to discover these changes and make matching changes. Like almost all NAS devices the QNAP box is running a variety of Linux.Īgain like almost all NAS devices - especially those using Linux it runs a version of the open source Netatalk software to implement support for AFP. QNAP make NAS devices, that is a box with its own internal storage, processor, network interface and software. (More as information for everyone and not just yourself.)
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