macOS 13.2 Ventura cannot connect to smb share

Have know changed every custom icon back to the original.

Actually the sharing works without problems, will report if there are problems again!

THANKS for the solution!

But I hope for a fix from Apple as soon as possible.

WELP... there was the simplest solution to something this was plaguing me for DAYS!! My only addition to that solution was that I had to restart. Thanks for sharing! (so... do I send my bill for lost work hours directly to Mr. Apple?)

I have huge shared folders, which are also not under my control. So this fix is hopeless for me. It also worries me, that a custom icon can crash an essential part of the OS. Having been a unix sysadm for more than two decades, I don't want to touch 13.2 with a ten foot pole. 13.3 will be new game new luck ;-)

Problem persists on Ventura 13.2 in spite of reformatting of volumes and sharing setup in new folders on (legacy) Pegasus Promise 1 and 2 raid systems – maybe because of Promise drivers custom icons on drive volumes!?

I find that if I connect to the home folder of the account doing the sharing - you know those shares which appear when you enable sharing without having to explicitly share them by name - those shares seem to work. However as soon as I attempt to connect to a share which points to an external drive then it no longer retrieves a directory listing and if I go back to one of the built in standard shares which previously worked then that stops working as well.

I have a 12tb external drive which is effectively useless now.

Make sure you all report this to Apple so they realise there is a big problem.

Dave

Other posters have had some luck with these steps:

1. Turn off SMB file sharing on the Mac.
2. Restart Mac
3. Re-enable SMB file sharing.

it did not work for me.

Exact same issue... got a Mac mini as a in-home server. All SMB connections, file server / Time Machine all fail. And just like the OP: Remote Desktop connections to the Mac mini work.

oh wow.... I can't? System gave me a message about number of minutes before shutdown when I selected to turn off file sharing. Now system prefs is locked up and I can't navigate the menus.

Cannot restart mini now. Wow.

Me too

Last update: Having a lot of problems now... Specifically Finder issues. It's locking up and having the whole system barf on me. No part of this is working properly.

Problem appears with more than 3 connections constantly - please fix this Apple!

It’s not the solution (universally) but it does identify the likely cause. ;-)