So, I’ve done a lot of research on this subject and the consensus seems that SMB should work, and is the standard Apple plans to use moving forward as AFP is deprecated. Netgear FA311v2 Network Card Driver 6.1 DOWNLOAD NOW Description Free Download n/a This package contains the files needed for installing the Netgear FA311v2 Network Card Driver. However, whenever I try to configure the backup to use SMB instead of AFP, it fails. Has anyone had any luck getting a Mac to backup using Time Machine over SMB? Something about how it does not have the appropriate resources or something. UPDATE: I used ssh to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf on the Synology to allow only SMB3 which completely broke everything. The Mac was no longer able to connect to the server at all and kept saying “urls with type “smb:” are not allowed”Īfter changing it back to support smb 2-3 the Mac is now able to connect and mount shares again. Follow the instructions to complete the installation. In order to make full use of your device, download the file to a folder on your hard drive, and then run (double-click) it to unzip the files. Screenshot of current smb statshares info I suspect the inability to connect via SMB-3 exclusively may be the heart of the issue, HOWEVER, here’s what weird: When I use “smbutil statshares-a” in Mac terminal, I get a result that suggests the share is in fact mounted via SMB 3. The file contains a compressed (or zipped) set of files packing the drivers for NETGEAR FA311 LAN.

I was troubleshooting backups using TM from several Apple laptops on my LAN to a Synology NAS last year and I filed a help ticket to figure it out. The result was that SMB is “supposed” to work in MacOS and AFP deprecated. I kept having corrupted TM backups and when I switched to AFP TM just worked.Īfter a few weeks, I started doing bootable backups using CCC and started to encounter the same issues. The CCC help feedback was a bit more comprehensive.ĭoing a CCC image backup to the NAS using SMB kept having problems, switch to AFP just works. NETGEAR FA312 Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter By NETGEAR Free Download Now Developers Description By NETGEAR Click on the following links for the driver package readme info.

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