[Samba] Samba 4.22 breaks Time Machine

[Perttu Aaltonen]

I also think it should be restored, but perhaps disabled by default and a note added to the man page for possible issues with Windows. There are Mac-only environments where it could be enabled safely on all shares, not just Time Machine.


> On 9. Mar 2025, at 6.14, jdistler-samba--- via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
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> Time Machine on macOS relies on fruit:posix_rename (in particular to rename the .sparsebundle file). Samba 4.22 removed this feature, thus breaking Time Machine.
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> Perhaps this feature could be restored (perhaps only on a per-share basis)?
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