macOS 13.2 Ventura cannot connect to smb share

I have two MacStudio M1's connected with Windows 11 machine. SMB share works across everything, with exception of 1 external drive which exhibits the same characteristics as you all are describing. What was particularly challenging is that it worked fine on the Windows machine, but not on the 2nd MacStudio. Everything WAS working fine until update to Ventura 13.2.

Tried all the suggestions here, thank you to those who posted. Nothing worked. I found this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/10jwm8x/comment/j5pozdt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

which led to a solution for me, though tedious. I created a new partition on my external drive in question. Created a new share, and started with one directory as a test move. Deleted the old share. Created a new share to the new partition.

Now it is working for me.

Looks like the issue is cause by custom icons on share folders. Go to the Mac thats hosting the share, and remove the custom icon, then it should start working again.

To restore the original icon for a file or folder:

• On your Mac, select the file or folder
• Right click --> Get Info
• At the top of the Info window, select the small custom icon.
  • Make sure you click the small icon at the top of the Info window (not the large icon under Preview).
• Choose Edit --> Cut in the menu bar.

Once I did that, my other Mac could connect to the share over SMB without issue.

I saw this in another post. Maybe it will work for you.

Looks like the issue is caused by custom icons on share folders. Go to

the Mac that's hosting the share, and remove the custom icon, then it

should start working again.

To restore the original icon for a file or folder:

• On your Mac, select the file or folder
• Right click --> Get Info
• At the top of the Info window, select the small custom icon.
• Make sure you click the small icon at the top of the Info window (not the large icon under Preview).
• Choose Edit --> Cut in the menu bar.

Once I did that, my other Mac could connect to the share over SMB without issue.

SOLVED!!! - DIFFERENT SOLUTION!

The custom icon thing wasn't available to me, but my issue ended up being just as dumb. Stunning Apple missed this, well... maybe... I'm pretty new to this side. I'm sharing my printer...

Earlier, I noticed that my shared printer from my MBP is shown as busy and not available... Hopped on the Mac mini to see what was going on and saw the same thing... Printer busy, but it wasn't doing anything.

Went to the printer settings and saw the printer I am sharing... isn't shared there anymore? Ok. Checked off share printer (to match the sharing settings)...

Once I did that, it blunk... went busy... then auto-printed off a set of docs that I tried to print 3 days ago. Then went idle available.

Restarted Mac mini.

Restarted MBP client.

Then magically, my RAID share auto-mounted as it's supposed to, my Time Machine share was available to be backed up... and I ran a test print to the shared printer without issue.

Must be running from the same daemon maybe? Bad config must have errored it out causing the multi-factorial set of issues.

I'm struggling with this on a new M2 mini. Cannot run Monterey. Sharing and permissions correct.

I've tried the following: 1) a full clean Recovery re-install, 2) deleting the smb prefs. No joy.

Crashes Finder on client machine with this message:

Oddly, Screen Sharing works.

Same issue here. Tried it on several Macs with 13.2. It works sometimes for a short time and then it's broken again. The usual solution didn't work.

This is definitely a big problem, made from apple. Hope for a emergency-release.

That finally worked. Turning off the SMB file sharing really seemed to mess up the system. Command line sudo reboot got the system back. Once back up, the General sys pref sharing menu was then accessible, still showed File Sharing on, then I turned it off... It did turn off, another soft reboot (Apple) -> Reboot. System came back, turned back on File Share, and file share + Time Machine backup drive working.

Thanks for the tip! Took a bit, but that finally worked. :)

Works great.... until I attempt to connect to the share with my iPhone. When I do this, the whole SMB share freezes forcing a restart. It does come back, but I can knock out the whole share just by attempting to connect via iPhone device.

I am having this issue after 13.2 upgrade.

2018 mac Mini and 2021 M1 MBP.

Connecting to Share on either machine freezes/crashes finder.

I can load 2 different Synology devices successfully.

Stopping/Restart/Starting file sharing has no effect.

Good info... didn't work for me. I'm sharing whole drives out. A 20TB RAID6 and a 6TB WD USB3 (file share and Time Machine backup drives... Backblaze won't touch a drive if there's any folder setup to do Time Machine backups)

Mine was Mac to Mac, so I cannot speak for 3rd party hardware connecting to it. I will say though, in my 15+ years of Network/Systems administration (Windows side of things), it's generally not best practice to share out the entire drive. Would be worth a try mapping to a sub folder on the drive, and not to the drive itself, to see if that resolves it.

The fix won’t likely work for entire volumes due to custom folder icons used by many apps. See additional comments I made to reddit post if interested. Apple is going to have to fix this. The more people that file a bug report the more likely it will garner attention.

It’s not something you would be typically be aware of. Custom icon files are created by many programs like Google Drive and Drop Box. If your familiar with using Terminal you can observe custom folder files by typing the following at the root of any mounted volume:

find . -name Icon?