SMB File Sharing not working in Ventura

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.

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;

}

An update for my situation, where nothing works for more than a few seconds (and Firewall settings (not enabled anyway) make no difference.

I use the Infuse app on the Apple TV to access and play from the SMB shared folder on my macMini - and it does not seem affected at all!? It has been going a week now without any disconnects!

But if any client Mac tries to connect via SMB, either Monterey 12.6.3 or Ventura 13.2, then disconnect after seconds. Disable on host, restart, reconnect, then clients connect again but disconnect after seconds. If I manage to get a file transfer working, then it will complete that single file transfer (even if it is a minute in duration) then disconnect immediately afterwards.

Could it be a client issue rather than the host?

Is the disable-reboot-enable merely getting the client to connect, but then it trips up again?

I have had so many issues with SMB sharing for the last three major OS releases but this is the worst, the prevalent one is double clicking on files on the server will intermittently not open the file. Sometime I can drag the file on the host onto its application on the client and that sometimes works, but often not even that will work.

So is the problem with the client not with the host?

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.

Dear all!

@Walter Madden:

YOU NAILED IT!!!!

This is a reproducable bug on a fresh and clean Ventura 13.2 installation. I created a new virtual machine with 13.2, created two folders on the desktop, one with an icon and one without and shared both of them.

I could connect and mount the folder without the icon perfectly. But when I tried to mount the shared folder with the custom icon, I got the forever spinning bar which says at the end that I'm not authorized to look inside that shared folder. Then I removed the icon (using Finder's infobox inside the VM) and – BOOM – I could also mount that folder.

I encourage everyone who is affected to try to remove the custom icon from their shared folders.

And because it's reproducable on a fresh installation: If you have opened a bug report at Apple, please update your report with this information!

@tresinnoctem

Does this trick also work for you?

Kind regards

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.