Ventura 13.2 File Sharing broken

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.

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.

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.

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.

I am trying to follow your instructions but a bit confused about step #7, you say "- go back into screen sharing and remove desktop from list of folders shared (disconnect users with 0 time if you didn't do so already)"

Do you mean go back into file sharing? Assuming yes, after I deleted the desktop folder as a choice and log in from another Mac I just get screen sharing again.

What am I doing wrong?

Don't take this wrong - but it seems like we are all just "preaching to the choir" at this point. There have been many suggestions on a fix in several threads in the Apple Support Community but none of them work.

We are in Apple's hands. Mercy Apple, have mercy on us!

Well, Being that I just did a clean reinstall of the OS on all three of my systems and it didn't fix anything...

I guess there's nothing left.

Apple has NO CLUE how to fix this and when I call senior advisors they pretend like it isn't an issue.

I miss Apple under Steve Jobs. We didn't have major glitches like this when updated were released under his leadership.

when I dared mention that someone posted about this issue in Reddit. That didn't go over well with him.

I don't get this. Any kind of discussion of bugs, especially crippling SNAFUs like this, is good for support/engineering/Apple. That it happens in the first place and there is no QM on this, has not been caught in the Betas is a big problem, but the discussion – and Reddit from what I can see is very quick and on the ball in this regards – is super-important for catching messes like these.

It is super strange that support, not only Apple, tries to deflect and put you on the defensive instead of handling the problem, owning it and helping you as a paying customer.

Most people here sound like power users that have multiple machines affected, so it got to the core of Apple @work with creative professionals. You do not have these troubles with one MBA, you gave it with MacPros, Studios, iMac/Pros etc. Which is a group of users I'd take rather serious as support. This is not the «did you try a different cable?» crowd. You mentioning Reddit etc is helping him escapalate and understand the problem.

It will take some time to sort it out.

Here is the thing: Nobody has the time. This is not some minor cosmetic bug. This is whole networking workflows breaking down. My whole team has no access to the archive of projects, to the photo- and video-library etc. You can solve some of that trouble via Dropbox, but is a massive pain in the *** when you talk about 32TB data that has become inaccessible.

Speedy99999

>> The custom permissions automagically got added when I removed and re-added the share.<<

How? I have never seen that and can not get it to happen. It is called "unknown users"?