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.
on which computer, I just upgrade and now I can't not see a shared drive on my other computer that has been working fine until this update.
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?
man I wish I would have known about this before updating this morning.
Ditto!
Sorry, me too,
Sharing worked for years. until to this ‚update‘
The worst for me of all is that Apple is not willing to respond and just giving unhelpful ‚solutions‘
ChatGPT can probably provide the same, if not better, answer than this. Same issue for me since the upgrade to 13.2.1 from 13.2. Starting to feel like I'm better off using Windows/Linux OS.
Same problem here. I've tried every fix I could find, but none work. So frustrating! This causes major disruption to my workflow.
Didn't work for me.
Sorry to hear it. :-(
by doing what you wrote, it looks like it messed up my connection to the other computer totally now. oh crap
ok fixed, had to go back and reshape and connect everything again. but the file sharing on the external attached drives still don't work
I can screen share but printer sharing also not working. Anyone else with that?
Same here.
Sorry.
Looks like doing this cycles the preferences blocking you from connecting in the first instance.
Worked to establish connection again, but Finder remains terribly slow... :( Apple, please work this out, I have been struggling with this for over a whole workday and still slows everything down.
Ventura 13.2.1 broke file sharing and related issues
