Maybe there is a alternative Finder tool like Alfred, but with a server feature for indexing the files directly on the server like spotlight server and serving them to some App on the clients? Is there any Samba fileserver solution working flawlessly with Mac clients? So I need to be able to move to some macOS free solution from DELL, Lenovo, HP … and now it's just the file server I have no answer to which and how.Īre HELIOS/Acronis the only "good" solutions? I don't know how long the Mac Pro will survive and Apple does not offer any hardware suitable for use as a professional (file)server. The Storage space is on the QNAP connected by iSCSI to the OS X VM. Right now we're using a almost 9 year old Mac Pro with Esxi Virtualization for the Linux und OS X 10.11.6 with Server App. (I know it's a problem because of Apple cooking an own SMB) My tests unfortunately showed, that it is not working stable and reliable.įurthermore the connections over SMB become extremly slow when copying many small files to the NAS. We have a QNAP NAS and they said, that when using Qsirch on the NAS with up-to-date OS, it should work with Spotlight on Mac clients, connected over SMB. I have tried different free Systems like FreeNAS and OpenMediaVault, but none of them has the Spotlight feature of Saba and/or Netatalk implemented. I know, there are solutions like HELIOS Universal File Server and Acronis Files Connect, but they are offering the Spotlight indexing only through AFP, which Apple is sadly giving up. Until now I have managed to move away with all needed Services (OD to AD, DNS, DHCP, Web, Jabber …) to Linux alternatives, but I was not able to find a solid working solution for a fast and solid working fileserver with reliable indexing for our Mac clients. Since Apple "killed" the real OS X Server with the Server App, I am looking for alternatives.
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