SMB File Sharing not working in Ventura

I have another issue active in the community related to SMB as well. I wonder if others in this thread have seen the issue I reported?

I am now, as of 13.1 & 13.2, seeing the return of ._* files on my SMB shares even though I have that disabled in the OS

$ defaults read com.apple.desktopservices

{

  DSDontWriteNetworkStores = 1;

}

File sharing not working on both my M1 Mini nor MBP 14 M1 - Toggling File Sharing Off/On and rebooting, fails to work. Ventura has been really buggy. Frustrated to say the least. Is there a fix in sight rather than a workaround which doesn't appear to work fully?

I am noticing that some folder shares have Staff and some do not have Staff group. I tried looking for the staff group to add in and can't find it to add to the share.

Also something that I have notice is that the Get Info to the share folder is not the user name that is log into the file share but the local machine user. Does that make sense?

I am have tried so many different options posted here and still having issues and staying on Ventura 3.1 haven't upgraded to 13.2 since it issue is happening on the upgrade.

I've spent a lot of time messing around tonight. I still can't get it to work. I'll use my workaround which is icloud drive. It's a bit of a pain but will do it. I am looking to move my music to a Windows NUC machine, which I will probably do tomorrow now.

Seems like every release now they have major issues. All four of my machines are now failing to file share, and this is hindering my business. Really need to consider windows as a serious option at this point, this isn't realistic anymore. We shouldn't have to update in fear.

I don't have any custom volume icons, even went and tried to delete them as though I did, and confirmed I have no custom icons. I have the problem and no listed workaround helps and I disconnect within seconds of mounting the host on a client Mac.

We do not have Custom icons and it is not working on our 13.2 unit.

Also on our 13.1 version, the permissions appears to be effected as Ms Office applications don't seem to be able to remove temporary ".SB" files/directories from remote shared folders when saving documents from remote client macs.

Has anyone tried Ms Office Apps (Word, Excel) save files remotely into shared folders?

So after lots of trying and the very helpful posts in this community forum, I have given up now and dusted off my Intel Nuc, put Windows 11 on it and moved my NAS and USB drive over to it. Installed Roon and life is back to normal again! I won't mess around with the Macs again until Apple release an update.

Stop... This is not a scalable solution. I urge you not to post stuff like this otherwise Apple will never get around to implementing a real fix.

It has already been established that the icon issue persists if you are using large folder directories or have folders that contain sub-folders with custom icons.

Not sure if you are referring to my post with your retort of the "Stop" response. You need to allow people to respond in the way they see fit. This problem is affecting multiple people and therefore is a widespread problem. I have raised a bug report with apple and their stock response was that they will look into it but may not respond directly to my submission.

Further to this, I have also just realised that Emby is not working as no movies or music plays. Upon investigation, I can no longer access my NAS or USB shares using Emby nor Finder on my Mac Mini M1. This is a colossal nightmare.

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Nothing is OK. Can't remember to claim anything has been fixed or being well.

We found ONE reproducible bug and a workaround (!) for people who are affected by exactly that bug. Not more or less. Apple needs to take action. There is no doubt about it.

And as the answers show: This isn't the only bug...

Same here. Like others I am able to get (external drives) file sharing to work TEMPORARILY by doing this and that… removing custom icons, switching off sharing, restarting 100 times… it always reverts to a hang and then won’t connect. Desperate to get an update from apple as I think we’ve all exhausted our other options here.

About to file another bug report. Transferring files to a Windows share takes a very long time. Transferring a 600mb file takes over an hour. The initial transfer connection takes almost 5 minutes to start