# Searchable HL-4 manual PDF, please

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**Category:** Feedback & Suggestions\
**Created:** [February 25, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.45homelab.com/t/searchable-hl-4-manual-pdf-please/3070 "2025-02-25T15:16:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![DismalWizard](https://forum.45homelab.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@DismalWizard](https://forum.45homelab.com/u/DismalWizard)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.45homelab.com/t/searchable-hl-4-manual-pdf-please/3070/1 "2025-02-25T15:16:12Z")

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I’m new to 45drives and 45homelab Houston UI along side a couple of TrueNAS boxes for serving.  
While doing configuration planning, I found myself in the HL4 manual (pretty good mostly) in Apple Preview. I tried to search it and found that Preview could not search it. It would be a big help if Command-FoxTrot opened the search widget and the text could be searched to find a specific topic, keyword, command, or procedure. Otherwise a good effort. Not your first rodeo. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![DigitalGarden](https://forum.45homelab.com/user_avatar/forum.45homelab.com/digitalgarden/32/1785_2.png) [@DigitalGarden](https://forum.45homelab.com/u/DigitalGarden)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.45homelab.com/t/searchable-hl-4-manual-pdf-please/3070/2 "2025-02-25T15:45:03Z")

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The PDfs have searchable text, they aren’t image scans. It seems like this may be an issue with Apple Preview and not the PDF. See, eg, [https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253903715?sortBy=rank](https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253903715?sortBy=rank). I’m not an Apple user though.

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**Author:** ![DismalWizard](https://forum.45homelab.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@DismalWizard](https://forum.45homelab.com/u/DismalWizard)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.45homelab.com/t/searchable-hl-4-manual-pdf-please/3070/3 "2025-02-25T16:08:40Z")

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Works for me??? I restarted Preview, opened my tax return, searched for Capital Gains and it was found. Tax return was printed to PDF on this Mac. Then I opened recent the HL-4 manual and searched for SMB. And it searched. And for Time Machine and it searched coming up dry.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![DigitalGarden](https://forum.45homelab.com/user_avatar/forum.45homelab.com/digitalgarden/32/1785_2.png) [@DigitalGarden](https://forum.45homelab.com/u/DigitalGarden)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.45homelab.com/t/searchable-hl-4-manual-pdf-please/3070/4 "2025-02-25T16:38:28Z")

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Do you need help setting the HL4 up for Time Machine, or was that just an example?

There is a KB article, though a bit old, of some options you may need to set for the Samba share to use it with Time Machine;

[https://knowledgebase.45drives.com/kb/kb450281-managing-smb-in-houston-ui](https://knowledgebase.45drives.com/kb/kb450281-managing-smb-in-houston-ui)  
Use the TOC to jump down to “Adding options to the SMB share”.

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**Author:** ![DismalWizard](https://forum.45homelab.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@DismalWizard](https://forum.45homelab.com/u/DismalWizard)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.45homelab.com/t/searchable-hl-4-manual-pdf-please/3070/5 "2025-02-25T20:22:23Z")

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Not this time around. But it is something for which TrueNAS had built in some support in the SMB UI so I decided to look for it. The thing I tried to search the book for was “Time Machine” or “TimeMachine”.

I like the helpful spirit here. System admin has such a large surface area that nobody knows it all. Everyone is a newbie at something so a helpful culture is good. Thanks.