Ventura 13.2 File Sharing broken

I have no idea how to get Apple to fix this issue. I had an open ticket with Apple at the end of December about this and was speaking with someone about it. However, when I followed up a couple weeks later their reply said "Thanks for reaching out to me. As we discussed, I’m looking into your case and working on your request." I went to follow up a couple weeks after that and it appears as if my case number is now closed. So....not sure what to do. This is extremely frustrating

Now that I've upgraded both host (Mac Studio) and guest (MacBook Air M1) to Ventural 13.2.1, still File Sharing does not work normally. However, the work-around I previously reported, namely, browsing to smb://xx.xx.xx.xx on the guest does work. (Here xx.xx.xx.xx is the address shown when you click the Information "i" icon in System Settings > General > Sharing > File Sharing.)

Let it never be said that "it just works!"

The only fix for now seems to be the downgrade to Ventura 13.1 on the server side. This is a real pain, I know. But when I actually did it, it was less difficult than I feared. You need a good backup; I always have two. The server's on board SSD disc needs to be wiped, which will lead to a reinstall of the system with which it was delivered, in my case Monterey. From the most recent backup (i.e. under Ventura 13.2), I recovered settings, applications and data towards the Monterey 12.3.6 server. I had a couple of issues with apps not loading, but traced it back to some incompatibilities between settings under different versions: Ventura settings running under Monterey. But a reinstallation of Monterey fixed those.

Some days later, I decided to upgrade the miniMac server to Ventura 13.1. All is still working normally.

No point going to Ventura 13.xx.xx until we are sure full network SMB functionality has been restored.

Yes, that is the workaround, but for us with a business setup, that amount of down time to do that procedure is not practical. If anything Apple should be rushing this fix for the business community, the real heavy users who just need things to work.

Sorry, getting more frustrated.

Quick heads-up: 13.2.1 did not fix any of these problems for us. And I'd think at the level of this thing being discussed and reported, .1 should have included a hot fix for this problem. . .

Apple, this is beyond annoying, this is basically messing up our company's work.

I just want to report that file sharing continues to work in 13.2.1 for all externally mounded drives (RAIDs and SSDs) on my servers. However, file sharing fails for the drives where Mac OS is installed.

axelbrunger wrote:

Yes, when sharing the external SSDs, the share works. When sharing directories on the drive with Mac OS often fails.

So if I understand your reply correctly, you are essentially saying, "same problem, only opposite". I recommend you start your own thread.

Here it happens regardless of what kind of disk is used. When we Share from internal disks, Finder or Forklift etc crash with the ever-loving beachball. External 48TB LaCie Raid does also crash when trying to access it directly or via SMB share. All devices in each direction. Tried to copy files from an MBP to MacStudio yesterday with 13.2.1 and both crashed when trying to copy a folder, no matter which device we used to copy the files with.

In the end, we used an external SSD to copy the files to and fro. As it wasn't a problem in 13.2. and affects all Macs, Intel or M1, MacBooks, iMacs or the Studios, in SafeMode as well as in RegularMode and utterly regardless of everything we tried to fix it, this probably is something much deeper than CustomIcons or SMB2/3...

File sharing worked all day yesterday on external drives, but as of this morning they don't. I have an external drive that has Monterey on it to boot to, so I will being using that. I'm using a mac studio M1 max.

The same problem here, but File Sharing also fails with "Connection Failed" or "There are no shares available or you are not allowed to access them on the server." when connecting as Guest. More details here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/454437/basic-file-sharing-from-mac-to-mac-not-working-when-connecting-as-guest-conne

Where are you getting the address for the host? (Yes, I realize that what you show in the screen shot is a dummy address.)

I'm trying the same thing but with FileZilla instead of Forklift 3, using the host's address shown in System Preferences > Network > Ethernet > IP address, but the connection fails.

OK, got this working with Forklift 3, except that:

(1) I never saw a window like you showed that asks for the protocol. I saw my host's name in the left column of the window, under "Shared", clicked that, and got a login dialog that asked only for my username and password. No request for protocol.

(2) Some files will not copy over from host to guest using Forklift 3 (purchased, not free copy!) -- even though they do transfer if I browse in Safari to smb://xx.xx.xx.xx (with the IP address of my host there), allow that to open in Finder with login, and simply drag the file from the now-opened window showing the host to a window in the guest.

I read this online....

SFTP is more efficient and faster than SMB when it comes to transferring large files, however, it has lesser functions. The short message feature of SMB makes it slow as it is sensitive to network latency.

Funny, made a post about a possible solution (try the next release .3) and asked if this helps. The post was deleted a short time after. Would be great if support, replays and solutions would be with the same speed...

Cannot get Forklift 3 on guest to connect to host via sftp at IP of the host.

On host I have File Sharing turned On. But do I need also to have Internet Sharing turned on? (If so, that's seemingly more dangerous than using smb via browser to Finder.