Ventura 13.2 File Sharing broken

I'm still having issues. It was working right after the 13.3 update, but after shutting down my machines and restarting them, file sharing no longer works. I've tried shutting down and restarting several times since, going into system settings making sure "smbd" has full disk access, making sure file sharing is still on. And unfortunately, I'm just not having a good reliable experience with file sharing....still....wtf

That is unfortunate. I am sorry to hear that. Best surefire solution is to downgrade ‒ only on the server side, not the client ‒ to Ventura 13.1. Or better, to Monterey since it still receives security upgrades without forcing you to Ventura. It is somewhat involved as a procedure, but workable. If you want more details, let me know.

Yeah it absolutely sucks. I don't know what is going on but it's definitely frustrating to say the least. I literally just got it working again by turning off file sharing, and turning off "smbd" under settings > privacy & security > full disk access > smbd. Shutting down the Mac Studio, then starting it back up and turning back on file sharing and "smbd" full disk access.

So it's working right now. I'm able to access files on my Mac Studio from my Macbook Pro. But I can almost guarantee you, that if I restart the Mac Studio, file sharing will not work again. I just don't understand. This has never been an issue for me on previous versions of MacOs. Ventura has by far been the worst MacOs experience I've ever had. Continuity Camera doesn't work with my Mac Studio either. Works just fine with the Macbook Pro.

My primary machines are an M1 Ultra Mac Studio, and a 13" M1 Macbook Pro. I also have an M1 Mac Mini. My M1 Ultra Mac studio is my main work station and I have a couple of external drives plugged in. After the initial update to 13.3 the issue seemed to be fixed. I was able to share files again. However, the second you restart your main hosting device, in my case the Mac Studio, it no longer works.

I'm curious to see if you restart your Mac Studio, if file sharing will also stop working.

When I'm unable to use file sharing through "connect to server" this has been my work around: turn off file sharing, turn off "SMBD" in full disk access settings. Shut down my Mac Studio, turn the Mac Studio back on, and turn on file sharing and smbd again. Then it will work until the next time my Mac Studio is restarted. I don't know what's going on after a restart, but I can tell you that i'm really starting to get p***ed off about this basic functionality not working. It's extremely frustrating to say the lesast. Ventura is by far the worst MacOs experience I've ever had in my 30+ years of using Apple computers.

For me turn off file sharing restart and back on fixes the problem. Over WiFi random APs (Unify, TP link).

After years as a windows user I decided to switch to Apple and I regret this decision every day. Ventura, iOS got soooo many basic bugs. How users can't see this. I am restarting phone and laptop twice a day. I wish there is some arm alternative for windows...

I installed 13.4 a few days ago and that's when the problem began! None of the fixes here seem to work for sharing files between a MBP (M2 Max) to an Apple TV.

Oddly sharing to another MBP does seem to work.

Very annoyed about this!

I had the same problem. Turning off File Sharing, restarting, turning on File Sharing did not help. Removing custom icons didn't help either. I have an Apple M2 Max MBP client which is trying to access files on an Apple M2 Mac mini. Both are running Ventura 13.5.2.

Finally, I called Apple Support and after about 30 minutes of debugging, they suggested to reinstall Ventura 13.5.2 on both Macs. That finally fixed the problem for me. Now File and Screen Sharing works as expected. Hopefully it will stay that way.

Visually disabled, so I am the last one to suspect Apple if anything goes wrong in Photos. My latest curiosity is how to be rid of the 'shared' vs 'personal' library. Led to believe this was reversible, when I asked AppleCare how to do this, it was explained to me how lucky I am that it is now so easy to share photos, only it isn't. My AppleCare lesson there was give it up. Managing a photo library in Finder was a miserable experience even when my eyes were working fine. I was reluctant to use iCloud because of my 10,000 files, but I had to, because my 2019 iMac was not playing nice with the Mac Studio, which was designed to help video professionals (who are gradually switching to Unix over recent months because they would like to keep their working relationships). I figured from now on I would use Photos for only new images, leaving what's recoverable of my old files on external devices. I have decided 30 years' worth of photos and video are not worth the trouble. Just to let you Apple loyalists born after 1980 know what lies in store.

I wonder if someone could provide some hope for managing video files, besides "learn Windows." Is there reason to hope 14.3 will fix even just my Photo library? It has gotten hard to trust software updates when to keep a fraction of my photos, I had better use a separate 10TB drive.

I know there are generous souls here in the community. Here's hoping one of you reads this.Not trying to be bitter, but have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Apple gear since 1983.

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I use SFTP protocol.

Make sure you connect using SFTP protocol.

Filezilla uses to FTP protocol by default.

So from Filezilla, go to Site Manager & connect using SFTP.

It's working for me. Are you using a VPN or Little Snitch, Radio Silence, or CleanMyMac or AntiVirus? These applications can and will negatively affect the operation of macOS.

Same problem as others, but I'm not using any custom icons or any of the apps you mentioned.