file sharing Monterey — El Capitan

Hello.

After updating one of my two macs to Monterey, it appears that file sharing between that one and the other, running El Capitan, isn’t working any longer. It ran smoothly before upgrading to Monterey.

Both machines have an active wlan connection within my local wlan network. File sharing is on on both, folders to be shared are set up. Both are set to share files and folders using SMB, both say: Number of users connected: 0.

Neither mac appears in the other’s Network. I tried connecting them via Connect to Server, as:

smb://[computer name]

and

smb://[computer name]._smb._tcp.local (which is what the Monterey mac suggested).

Both unsuccessful. Then

smb://[computer name]._afpovertcp._tcp.local

Equally unsuccessful.

Any idea?

Thanks!

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.0

Posted on Oct 29, 2021 5:11 AM

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mario49

Community Specialist

Oct 30, 2021 10:00 AM in response to Nikolai Franke

Hello and welcome to Apple Support Communities, Nikolai Franke.

If we understand your post correctly, your computers do not find one another on your network to share files since upgrading one to macOS Monterey. We’d like to help.

Follow the steps in this article:

If your Mac can’t connect to another computer

Let us know if that resolves this issue for you.

Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities.

Oct 30, 2021 4:22 PM in response to mario49

Hello Mario,

Thanks. I went through the steps specified in the linked manual page. The settings remain as laid out above. Connecting one mac to the other using the Connect to Server command fails, attempting both [computer name].local and smb://[computer name] (both taken from the Sharing panel in System Preferences as described in the document you linked to). Attempts went both ways (attempting to link the El Capitan mac to the Monterey mac and vice versa), both failing the same way.

It may be of interest that Monterey seems to come with a number of problems concerning networking. Since the update, the Mac takes a very long time to establish a wlan connection when waking up from sleep mode or starting up, and the bluetooth icon in the menu bar no longer changes to the bluetooth-connected icon when in fact connected. None of these ever occurred before upgrading to Monterey.

The fix most direly needed however is that for the file sharing failure. Any idea?

Thanks

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file sharing Monterey — El Capitan