openmediavault

In my series of articles about openmediavault, it is now time for a quick tip that displays the name of your NAS in the Finder sidebar in a more Mac typical way.

More information about this series about openmediavault and an overview of all articles, please see here.

If you have set up SMB shares in openmediavault, then you will notice, that the name of your NAS shows up in teh Finder sidebar and in the “Network” folder in a rather Mac-atypical way, namely not only with the name alone but with the addition “- SMB/CIFS”. This looks like

In the first article I’ll show you some small optimizations for the SMB shares for working with macOS. For more information about this series about openmediavault and an overview of all articles, please see here.

So let’s get started. The above mentioned optimizations for SMB are the settings vfs objects = catia fruit streams_xattr and fruit:metadata = stream

As you probably know, openmediavault already allows a lot of settings for shared folders and SMB shares in its GUI and also allows you to specify advanced options, both in the settings for SMB/CIFS as a whole, as well as for the respective individual shares.