SMB File Sharing not working in Ventura

YES ! I have been struggling with this ever since the Ventura update. I have a Macbook (M1) that backups on a drive attached to a Macmini (M1) that acts as a networked Time Machine disk. This set up stopped working after updating both Macs to Ventura. Could not figure out what was wrong. Your solution works permanently. That’s a tough one: thousands if not milions of folks will struggle with this bug.

This is my problem as well. I formatted the drive, installed a fresh copy of Ventura, setup file sharing. Any edit on a shared file results in several visible .sb folders that cannot be deleted by the user accessing the files. I have spent two days getting a pristine environment, but it just does not work. I am going back to Monterey as I have an entire office down.

I finally borrowed a Ventura MacBook to see if it also had the same issue as my non-Ventura Macs. Sadly, the answer is yes. Accessing my M1 iMac Ventura file-share still creates the same temp folders every time you edit a shared file. I'll try the "hassle but workaround" 👆🏼 suggestion next.

hi, your have to do these things pretty much on off, has your tho actually fixed the issue or does this come up from time to time cause in Ventura it has issues when rebooting with user home folders on ext drives.

SMB and support for MS Office Applications:

There is an additional issue that may be related to SMB sharing while using Microsoft office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) on a network. Office applications create temporary cache directories with an ".SB" extension that are not removed by the application.

We have designated a Mac-Mini as our file server and since the Ventura upgrade MS Office is unable to delete any of the temporary ".SB" files. The file server is accessed by several users and the amount of garbage left behind by the MS Office as the result of SMB malfunction is significant.

Interestingly, even as a registered user on the file server you can't delete these ".SB" folders from the remote computer. The error message "The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items." occurs when trying to delete as a remote registered user with read/write permissions. You have to physically access the platform as an administrator and delete these ".SB" folders from the file server.

Also, turning the file sharing ON and OFF does not fix the problem.

We are certainly considering switching to Ubuntu Linux after 20 years of using Apple for our back-office. It is a shame.

I have tried everything except the Terminal Commands since I dont quite understand them......This has totally broken our office file sharing and sorry I upgraded to Ventura....BIG mistake!

My laptop connects just fine but 4 other users cannot and I have wasted 2 days of my time trying to replicate what this sees and theirs does not......I am frustrated beyond all belief at Apple

Les and All,

I found this:

1. Created User accounts for everyone, some Administrator some Standard
2. Moved files from an old Mac mini running Mac OS Server (C 2010) to the new box - Macintosh HD/Users/Shared into 5 folders called Groups 1 through 4
3. Gave Administrators and everyone else individual Read - Write access through System Preferences/General/Sharing/File Sharing......depending on which group they belonged to
4. Everyone could see their assigned files through SMB file sharing
5. However, I am the only one who can write to each file....everyone can read, but no one else can write
6. When I save a Microsoft file, like others have said it creates a temporary file that will not delete through SMB.....going to the box that stores the files and logging in, those files can be deleted......another poster mentioned the same issue.

Any ideas on how to get the others to write? Remember, they already have permission based on #3 above.

Thank you

Bob

I stupidly updated my Media Server to Ventura.

I have the same issues as everyone else. The fix works but only for a few seconds. Sometimes I can manage to copy a single file then it disconnects. So upset. Please Apple hurry with a fix - I cant watch movies or listen to my music server anymore - after buying a macMini specifically for the task - now a complete waste.

So dismayed.

It didn't work for me and I'm desperate. Everything was fine for me until I upgraded to Ventura 13.2 on all of my 3 Macs (2 iMac 24' M1 and a Macbook Pro M1). Now I can't share files at all. And every solution I find online is this one of turning file sharing off, rebooting, and then back on. But it doesn't work for me. I'm thinking of downgrading to Monterey. I can't believe Apple could release a new OS with such big issues...

Thanks for your suggestion. We don't have custom icons on our server.

Clearly everyone have different setups and we are all trying to make sense of what is broken and not working.

In our case, we have operational servers with thousands of files in external drives, and dozen users sharing files across the network. Access to files on the server (Ventura OS) by applications such as Word and Excel across the network and how these applications behave using SMB has been compromised by the SMB service on the OS. It has made life very complicated for our business.

We have checked out a few of these suggestions on our non operational Mac unit and non have been successful.

The real solution must come Apple in form of an update and announcement that they have fixed this significant bug.