OS X Monterey - lost all SMB network connections and bluetooth

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OS X Monterey - lost all SMB network connections and bluetooth

I'm running the latest version of Monterey which I have reinstalled with no success, trying to fix bluetooth. This is no longer accessible and there is no preference for bluetooth in the preference library. I can live without this for the time being but all my shares with the local exchange server have gone. My other Mac, still on Big Sur, has no such problems. Despite calling support and doing all the usual resets and booting into safe mode etc, I am still not able to mount any shares. Has anyone had a similar problem and found a fix? Is Apple working on this to repair in next release? Any help appreciated.

MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Posted on Dec 6, 2021 3:03 AM

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Frank Thompson Author

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Dec 16, 2021 1:03 AM in response to Frank Thompson

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. In the end I decided to do a clean install. I backed up and then completely wiped the SSD hard drive. Once everything was installed again it all worked fine.

SMB connections are now instant, bluetooth is back and Time Machine back ups are working again. I suspect the disk had become corrupted somewhere and bit by bit it was affecting different parts of the system. Fingers crossed it will remain stable.

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Barney-15E

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Dec 6, 2021 3:31 AM in response to Frank Thompson

If you have completed an SMC reset to no avail, take it to an Apple Store or Authorized Service Center for eval/repair.

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Lilibu

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Dec 15, 2021 12:34 PM in response to Frank Thompson

I have 3 Macs. 2 with Monterey, one with BigSur. The two Monterey machine can see the BigSur laptop via file share. But opposite way not working. After the 12.0.1 update, SMB File Share has gone. The two Monterey machines also can't see each other. I am unable to connect the two machines. NEED HELP on this!

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Barney-15E

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Dec 15, 2021 2:10 PM in response to Lilibu

After the 12.0.1 update, SMB File Share has gone.

Can you explain? Gone from where? SMB is the primary networking protocol. AFP should be gone from the Options.

Have you tried connect to server (cmd-K) and enter smb://ip-address?

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OS X Monterey - lost all SMB network connections and bluetooth

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