SMB File Sharing not working in Ventura

Just to let others know - glad to say this is fixed for our insanely complex setup (Mac Studio with two separate ethernet networks one of which shares RAIDs via Softraid with custom icons and CrushFTP for client cloud access.) We didn’t do incremental updates for obvious reasons so I’m extremely grateful for everyone’s continued updates here. Finally updated all macs on the network this morning and see stable success on ethernet and wifi. Haven’t restarted since again for good reasons so I hope this stays fixed permanently. Thanks again.

Does anyone have the same issue as me where the host won't wake up for network SMB access? I have the "Wake up for network access" toggled to on in my settings on the host, but I keep having to go wake up the host computer every time I want to use the SMB server.

The working solution for me

Add

/usr/sbin/smbd 

with Settings -> Network -> Firewall -> Options

Or

sudo /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --add /usr/sbin/smbd
sudo /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --unblockapp /usr/sbin/smbd

Interesting is that this reqiured even if Sharing is visible as allowed in firewall.

Yes, I had tried all the suggestions in this thread and elsewhere with no luck. Your post spurred me to check the Firewall Settings. "smbd" was set to "Block incoming connections". After entering admin credentials, changed it to "Allow incoming connections" then clicked on "OK" and immediately the shared folders were visible on the network.

I've submitted a report via Feedback Assistant. Users should not have to fix Firewall Settings to get sharing to work.

Many thanks.

Thank you, thank you, thank you so much Radek & Garry! I have 3 of 5 mac's where the smbd was broken for many months. I tried everything in this community/support and nothing worked, the iOS updates didn't help (except for 1/5). Today I found this post. Having a look at the firewall settings and setting up the button "allow incoming connections for smbd", worked! Note: I never changed this setting. It must be iOS software update related. I'm so happy, now we can work in the network again after a long period of frustrations!

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The last command solved my issue getting file sharing working using afp on Ventura 13.4.1. Thank you.

Thanks!! At last this resolved the issue in my M1 iMac too. I tried every other solution before with no avail. Awesome!

Ok I spoke too soon, today it doesn't work again after a reboot. Firewall rule is still there. Oh well

Sorry for my ignorance but I am having the same issue, where am I turning off the file sharing?? Where do I find it???

Hi blkhwkgrl3, go to system preferences, general, then sharing, and finally file sharing. Slide the button on off. Reboot. Then switch it on again. And it will work for a few hours, until the next reboot. You can turn it off again and reboot when you need it. Alas this is what we must do.

I will do a clean install of Sonoma. I don't know why it's needed but just reinstalling Ventura on top of itself didn't help

So frustrated. It's not working at all. I can only see Public and TimeMachine not my folders & files!!!

Any other solutions???

Wait, if you see those it means it works. Did you login with the user and password of an admin of that computer? If not and you want anyone to access other folders and files, you need to add those to the shared ones. Click the little (i) in the circle near the toggle, and when inside add the folders you want to share in the left pane

Ok, sorry again but I am not very savvy... where do I share the folder from? In the past I could select "MicheleMyCloud" which would show up w Public and TimeMachine. I don't think I changed any settings, so I am not sure where to go to share that file? I can see all my files/folders on the web but that's it. Sorry I'm a pain!!! And yes, I logged in w/ the username and password that I used for My Cloud.