Setting Up Apple Media and Entertainment SMB Shares

When creating a share, do not attempt to set up the root or pool-level dataset for the share. Instead, create a new dataset under the pool-level dataset for the share. Setting up a share using the root dataset leads to storage configuration issues.

The MacOS Media Share purpose enables Use Apple-style Character Encoding, which translates NTFS illegal characters to the Unicode private range. This ensures compatibility with Apple Media & Entertainment applications like Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro.