Does not seem to work. Needs troubleshooting guide.
ralfbiedert opened this issue · 4 comments
Server:
- Ubuntu 16.4.2 LTS
- Latest docker-timemachine, followed instructions
avahi-daemonup and running (according to instructions)- Firewall (
ufw) disabled
MBP:
- Running 10.12.3
- All firewalls disabled (system + Little Snitch)
- Running on same network
Result:
- MBP (Settings -> Time Machine) does not detect any Time Machine drives
Update
- Alrighty, if I manually mount the volume first (
afp://myhost) I can connect to it. - Makes me wonder, is this supposed to create a Time Machine disk, or just an AFP volume? In that case the instructions should be clearer how to connect to it!
@ralfbiedert the reason is because your time machine server is not on the same network as your laptop, so it can't see afp broadcasts. I don't know for sure, but you can get around this by running in --net=host mode.
Hi!
Some tips:
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If you have avahi-daemon configured, you should be able to activate
ufwenablingavahi-daemonandnetatalkports. It should work fine. -
The idea of using avahi-daemon installed in the bare metal server is to avoid having to execute the container with
--net=host, which a potentially insecure flag (/cc @stephen-mw). But, as the last option to check things out, it should be fine. You just should know what you are enabling. -
A Time Machine network disk is just a disk image in an AFP volume that supports the correct level of encryption. So to be recognised by the TimeMachine daemon, you should mount the unit manually for the first time, configure TimeMachine on your computer, and then the OS will do that for you automatically.
Hope this helps and sorry for the lack of instructions (if you feel good updating the README, please feel free to do a PR!).
And thank you for your feedback! You rock!
Added a pull request (#16) for an updated README.
Merged, thanks a lot! Closing this issue...