After installing 13.2.1 file sharing stopped working on my iMac. Tried turning off/on with a reboot but does not work. Even worse, when turning off File Sharing, the Sharing pref panel becomes unresponsive and the Restart and Shut Down commands do not work. Have to do a hard shut down with the button.
After experimenting I see two bugs connected to File Sharing.
1) Ventura 13.2.1 does not properly handle extended attributes on a shared directory.
2) Macs connecting to a directory with extended attributes shared by Ventura 13.2.1 eventually hang and need to be force-restarted.
As soon as there are extended attributes present on the directory to be shared by Ventura 13.2.1, File Sharing stops working. The connecting Mac (does not need to run Ventura as well, also tested with macOS 12) hangs itself up in an I/O deadlock and unless its network connection is stopped, it will need a forced restart.
Examples:
After adding "Comments" using "Get info" the extended attribute "com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment" and the connecting machine can connect but hangs after a while. The hangup can be triggered by trying to "Get info" on the mounted share.
After adding a Tag using "Get info" the extended attribute "com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags: is added. Now I can no longer connect, the share is listed but the connecting machine hangs trying to connect. On the machine serving the share I can not even turn off File Sharing, the Sharing preference does not even load. I could load it again after force killing smbd using sudo kill -9.
After adding a custom icon the extended attribute "com.apple.FinderInfo" appears and kills File Sharing in much the same way.
After clearing all extended attributes using xattr -c, sharing works again.
First and foremost, I think what ever happens on a network it should never ever deadlock the file system of any machine ever. Filesystem lockups should never happen. Ever. This is a bad bug imho, regardless of the bug in the Ventura machine serving the share.
Secondly, I do hope that Apple is aware of this issue. The issue is still present in Ventura 13.3 public betas 1 and 2.
Worked for me as well. Did not fuss with the "ignore ownership" box. Deleted shares list in both the laptop which still has the Monterey OS and the Mini which I had upgraded to Ventura 13.2.1. Thank you very much.
Hy everyone
the only way to resolve "files sharing" issue is turn off and turn on files sharing, but when solved this problem i had "error 36" during copy files from one disk on intel iMac 27 2020 to another disk on a m1 Mac
In my hands the only way to solve this new problem was "RESTART BOTH MAC"
At this point my opinion is that not only SMB have a big problem but also Finder.
Hope that Apple is working about that because now with the last Ventura release is totally impossible to share everything
Thanks for your attention
Marco275
Hi Ken225,
Thanks for working through those steps. We would like to have you continue working with support toward a resolution by reaching out here: Contact - Official Apple Support
Thanks.
This failure of file sharing on OS 13.2.1 is a major issue for anyone using shared files! " basically making it impossible to work from network-shared folders and drives. " I have the same issues--
Same issue. I happened to just get a new router as well so I thought I had messed up a setting and spent forever trying to figure it out. But I noticed sharing was working in the other direction viewing files from my Macbook that hadn't yet been updated. I just can't view the files on my Mac Studio share with the updated os. Hopefully they will fix this issue soon.
danielmhubbard86 wrote:
Ken, which computer did you change the name the one trying to access the shared drive or the one with the shared drive? and is this solution still working?
I changed the one with the shared drive. It is still buggy. Sometimes works but other times not.
ok, so its probably better to just take the drive off and attach it to my computer im using, the downside is that I am. using Time Machine and back blaze on the one with the shared drive, so I will need to reattach when I am done so it can do the backups. man I wish I would have known about this before updating this morning.
I'm highly impacted by this issue!
There is no sharing from M1 to MBPro possible, BUT I can still share my LINUX machine.
Of course I have checked the sharing preferences on both MAC's as suggested by J_Johnnyboy, they wer fully OK.
I'm not that software geek to work with terminal and delete or change some files as others did - by the way, where they successfull?
What's also strange is, that shutting down the M1 takes a very long time (1 min or longer) since that 'improvement' to 13.2.1
Hi Ken,
We have had major issues with OneDrive syncing Sharepoint sites since that update got rolled out. Users installed the update overnight and in the morning they couldn't access sync files in their finder. OneDrive basically asked them to resign in, and when you checked which sites are synced after there were non listed!!. This means we had to re-sync all the sites again (some users are syncing close to 60 sites) and to make it even more hilarious the location of the synced files changed, so now we are not sure if the file in previous folders got synced or not!! So for the time being we need to keep both document folders. This wouldn't be such an issue if you could choose the location of the synced folder manually like you can on Windows, but it's not asking you for that on Mac!!! Well done Apple! Properly tested updated rollout.
i had several sessions with Apple Support on this and allot of trouble shooting time--Apple seems to have a problem-I am sure they are experiencing it at the Apple Offices with networked computers--and working to sort out the problem--
I should mention that I have NOT updated the laptop with Ventura. It's still running Monterey 12.6.3. I usually leave well enough alone with Mac OS updates. I broke my own rule when I updated to Ventura so early in the lifecycle of the release. Sigh.
P.S. Curious for those of you who say you can "connect"to your host computer using 13.2.1, are you able to mount a remote drive or read the contents of directories on the host? I can see my host computer and the drives from my client, but I cannot mount them or read them. That is where the connection hangs for me, Finder crash, etc., etc. Not good. Also, anyone able to use ftp or other protocol to establish a reliable file sharing connection?
I spoke with Apple Tech support, they were of NO help. They said they haven't heard of any problems. Suggested I reinstall the OS which MAY fix the problem. I directed them to the Community decisions showing there is a problem. They did offer to send me to a paid service that could help. My point is, why should I pay for a service that is clearly a problem with the OS?
It seems, that Apple is trying kicking the can down the road, and they have any time of the world!
This can be the only successful method, when they (Apple) have no solution or (worse) when they (Apple) have destroyed the system, resp. the smb-file.
At present I'am 'sharing' my files manually(!) by USB-stick, hoping with a next upgrade this bug would be fixed.
Well, it doesn't help, but only ironically: 'A problem shared by many is a problem at least halved' and believe me: I'm really furious!
Ventura 13.2.1 broke file sharing and related issues
