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Why Samba? That is not used unless you must support windows. NFS would probably better option for Linux, *inx and Mac.

I didn't know about that. I don't use windows at all, but have a Synology with a bunch of drives and use it with SMB for my multiple Macs and apple devices, haven't had any larger issues and things seem to work fine. Should I be switching to NFS ?

It seems to be OK when there is plenty of free space but once Time Machine needs to prune older files it starts having problems (at least in my experience).

I wouldn't connect to SMB from Mac or Linux by choice on devices I control and could have them use another scheme.

I'd use SMB only if I had to connect to some corporate server on Windows, or if whetever system I connected to didn't support anything else.

Samba is used for Windows support.

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