SMB File Sharing not working in Ventura

this still isn't working for me after installing 13.3 overnight. i noticed yesterday that my time machine backup hadn't completed in weeks (it backs up to a SMB share on my OMV install) even though the disk has been and is still online.

i can use connect to server and see the time machine share, but time machine itself can't find it.

i noticed after the 13.3 update that file sharing was already turned off (i don't remember turning it off, but i don't share anything from this computer so it wasn't really an issue)...turned that on, but time machine still can't find it.

After reading that the latest Ventura release fixed reported file sharing issues i retried with a share on AppleTV Infuse app (media player app). Works fine until you shutdown the Mac and the share is completely forgotten and can’t connect.

The only way to get it working again is to turn off file sharing on the Mac and reboot, turn it back on and setup share again on AppleTV which works perfectly until the next Mac shutdown. Rinse and repeat. So still broken for me.

cerancour wrote:

After reading that the latest Ventura release fixed reported file sharing issues i retried with a share on AppleTV Infuse app (media player app). Works fine until you shutdown the Mac and the share is completely forgotten and can’t connect.

The only way to get it working again is to turn off file sharing on the Mac and reboot, turn it back on and setup share again on AppleTV which works perfectly until the next Mac shutdown. Rinse and repeat. So still broken for me.

Thanks for sharing this. My use case is the same as yours (sharing to Infuse on Apple TV) and I've been hesitant to upgrade from 13.1 on my Mac Mini due to all of these SMB issues. Glad it still "works" in the sense that it didn't prevent you from sharing to Infuse entirely, but I definitely wouldn't want to have to set up the share on Apple TV again each time my Mac needs a reboot. Since Apple Support indicated to others here that the fix would be coming on a build number different than that of 13.3, I'm still hopeful that the actual fix is coming in a future update (13.3.1 or something).

13.3.1 is out today, and instead of focusing on resolving SMB file sharing, it appears Apple had much, much bigger priorities to focus on.

In this update, the pushing hands emoji now shows skin tone variations again. Thank god this is fixed, what would I ever do without my brown skin tone pushing hands emoji. All is well in the world. I can sleep again at night. Thanks Apple!

somuchforlaunch wrote:

13.3.1 is out today

Ah, I wasn't aware that they had released it already. Did you upgrade to it? If so, can you advise what the build number is for that release? Just curious if it matches the 22E5236 build Apple Support referenced to quite a few people as the one that would contain the fix.

It looks like 13.3.1 is build 22E261, so still not yet approaching build 22E5236 (which almost seems like it might be a typo, as the builds so far typically only have 3 numbers after the letter). Hopefully Apple Support knew what they were talking about. Guess I'll wait around for 13.4.

Barney-15E wrote:

You should not assume the build numbers are sequential. That's not how it works.

Okay, though looking at the build numbers for Ventura thus far, they have been. First by letter, then number:

13.0 - 22A380

13.0.1 - 22A400

13.1 - 22C65

13.2 - 22D49

13.2.1 - 22D68

13.3 - 22E252

13.3.1 - 22E261

Granted, however, the beta for 13.4 has moved on to the letter F (22F5027f), so I'm realizing that it's likely the build that Apple Support was referencing as having the fix (22E5236f) was a beta build for 13.3 or 13.3.1, meaning the fix has indeed already been implemented. Which is both good and bad, since it seems to have fixed the issue for some, but not others. I suppose I'll just have to bite the bullet, update, and hope it doesn't screw up my SMB share to my Apple TV.

For those who are stating the fix is not working, perhaps sharing your setup would help.

Mine is Mac Studio, with a folder on an external TB4 RAID being shared with several other Macs on my network and the issue has not shown up since the update.

I’ve just erased the Mac Studio boot disk and reinstalled Ventura. A complete clean slate.

No difference in my use case. Synology works fine. AppleTV Infuse share does not. Setup Infuse share and everything works. Shutdown the Mac and the Infuse share no longer works. Zero change in behaviour. I’ll restore all data from Time Machine now and just go back to using Plex.

Hi minion003,

no, these are folders, not files.

But yes, they are created while saving a file which is located on a SMB share; they are created next to that file. Since I "updated" to 13.3.1, they disappear immediately.

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.

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!

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