SMB File Sharing not working in Ventura

Hi!

Just now I have updated my Mac mini 2018 from Monterey to Ventura 13.1 – which bricked file sharing. Your solution "turning off – reboot – turning on again" didn't do the trick for me.

In addition, your user MUST HAVE ADMINISTRATIVE RIGHTS!

I had to grant my account admin rights, THEN I did the turn off-reboot-turn on.

After that I could remove admin authorizations from my account and file shaing still works.

THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH!!

My case was supposedly escalated, and I was told the senior advisor owning the case is required to check for updates three times a day but I haven't heard anything since 1FEB.

Until Apple fixes whatever is going on with network file sharing in Ventura I set up my own NAS on an old pc and it's worked flawlessly so far, in case anyone is looking for a solution the mean time there are many NAS solutions out there you can run on a variety of hardware. Do a little searching for home has software or open source nas and you will find many options.

Or buy a Synology, or QNAP NAS box if you need something ready to use without building it yourself, but this will be more expensive as the boxes run several hundred dollars and you may need to buy hard disks to populate a Synology or QNAP appliance.

It has been many weeks since a senior advisor told me my case was escalated to engineering. I have never heard from anyone at Apple since. Whatever this is it will not be fixed quickly. I went out and bought a Synology NAS and put it on my network and use that as my bulk storage location for all the devices in my home and it works perfectly. Either build or buy a NAS - if Apple could figure this out quickly they already would have. Synology and QNAP are the big names in off the shelf NAS products, or you can build your own if you want to go that route with TrueNas, UnRaid, or a bunch of other open source NAS products.

Apple just notified me too that the issue related to my ticket (FB11991908 - extended attributes with SMB sharing) is expected to be fixed in last macOS beta (22E5236f).

I can't test it on my Mac Mini, but I will try to reproduce on a VM.

If someone can test more easily in the mean time, feel free to comment here.

Also installed 13.3 22E252 and it is working so far.....

Host Server: Mac mini M1 (22E252 build)

Connecting Computers: 2 M1 MacBook pro's, 1 I5 MacBook Pro, M1 MacBook, 3 Mac mini's (2010), 2 iMacs (2009 and 2013 vintage)......all various versions of Apple OS

KYFC

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

MRYFLYGUY wrote:

Barney-15E wrote:

The guest login has nothing to do with the Guest account. It is just an anonymous login. That login would have access as determined by everyone.

I beg to disagree. I have the Guest User (user name) enabled with "Allow guest users to connect to shared folders" enabled.

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/620e66d1-a673-410c-b826-d00ad86a0975

Using the FILES APP on my iPhone, I use "Connect to Server" using iMac.local. For the "Connect As" prompt, I'm selecting "GUEST" instead of "Registered User" (which prompts for Username and Password - GUEST does not) and it connects and displays shares as expected.

What password do you use for Guest login to a remote share?

Turning sharing off before shutdown and on on startup - seems to work.

Removing customized icons of my drives and folders worked for me!

Small bug with a really big consequences in Mac OS.

My case is not resolved with 13.3. The workaround (sharing off - reboot - sharing on) still does work.

Also installed 13.3 22E252 and it is working so far.....

I'm so happy to say that 24 hrs with 13.3, SMB file sharing is working so far, even with a custom folder icon. I'm hoping this continues!

I file share between an M1 Mac and Intel MacBook Pro without issue. I can file share with both to/from a Catalina mini without issue.

There are some privacy controls in Ventura which require adding smbd to Full Disk Access if you want to share Desktop, Documents, or Downloads.

Please describe the problems you are having.

UPDATE: Once I turned my iMac off, and back on, File Sharing started not working again. That means that I have to turn off File Sharing before turning the computer off, and turn File Sharing on after turning the computer on for File Sharing to work.