Time Machine Backup to Samba Share under Mac OS Lion In earlier versions of Mac OS you could enable TimeMachine to use Samba-Shares as a Backup-Target using this:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1


and create a backup image with this script.

Sadly Time Machine now says that my drive does not support the necessary AFP protocol. 

Is there a workaround for this?
Suspiciously named Msftguy has written a program that fakes the required AFP features for unsupported volumes.  AFAIK this is currently the only way to use non-AFP volumes with 10.7 lion.  Use at your own risk!

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