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SMB disk is not visible in Time Machine accessing with Local QTS account

Last modified date: 2022-06-24

Applied models:

All NAS Series

Applied Firmware:

All QTS Firmware Versions

You are following the guide Using Time Machine to Back Up Macs to a QNAP NAS via SMB but you find that the SMB HDD is not visible as shown in the image below:

This could be because you only enable “Access with local QTS accounts” such as in below image:

You could enable “Use shared Time Machine account” and check if you are able to see the SMB connection as below:

Enabling the "Shared Time Machine account" is a must for supporting mutiDNS. You do not need to use it but you must keep it enabled for it to show the SMB connection shared.

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