File sharing broken on Mojave

can you colour label the files and folders on the shares. if so does the file/folder change colour immediately. if you copy a file to a sub directory within a share from a Mac, does it allow you to access the file immediately. these are the issues I am now having sped up smb browsing using this

Speed up browsing on network shares

To speed up SMB file browsing, you can prevent macOS from reading .DS_Store files on SMB shares. This makes the Finder use only basic information to immediately display each folder's contents in alphanumeric order. Use this Terminal command:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE

Then log out of your macOS account and log back in.

My issue now is, going forward, what file server solutions would you suggest for studios/offices of apple users that have terabytes of data they need to regularly access.  AFP is no longer supported by apple therefore NAS solutions are a no-go, SMB 3 shares do not retain permissions across multiple users as well as having multiple other issues eg. delay in colour coding projects/folders/files… delay in registering files moved from office Macs onto SMB shares.

What search facility is now available ... now that there is no spotlight index to look up. (.Spotlight-V100)

I just changed the color label on a couple of files and checked on another computer and the colors had already changed by the time I pulled the files up on the second computer; so that seems to work good.

I have a scanner that saves scans on to the server in a folder and the file is accessible by me by the time I get back to my desk so it shows up immediately in the shared folder.

I am not using the terminal command you mentioned there.

At least the demon is now not crashing every minutes, but I have still some strange right problems on the shares. I still can't figure out where the problem is...

Sometimes I can mount a smb share and after a minute the rights on the shares are changing without any action from my side.

Things seemed to have settled down quite well between my 2 Mojave Servers*, 30 Mac desktop iMac's MacBooks and DROPBOX* sync'ing SHAREs between two offices.

However, there are a few of iMacs MacBooks that still fail** to close files on the Mojave Servers properly and thereby locking their sharing permissions.

All Servers are on Mojave.very-latest

All Desktops are on High Sierra.very-latest

All running SMB 3.02

... just cannot see what the issues are there**

I've check permission on the servers until I am blind and confused :-O :-)

@jrpmedia

Yes still got some issues like this as well from time to time. Cant open files or sometimes I can't oversave open documents.

Not 100% sure but I believe sometimes is was caused by someone else have the file selected in finder. Even though it was not open it somehow still locked it.

@Julian-JacksonDaly

I also wondered if it was multiple access to the same [opened] file... especially as many were Microsoft Excel files... BUT I see it happening on Adobe Illustrator, JPEG and URL files too.

It's like the Mojave Server File-Sharing cannot remember or manage access.

The only way to fix it is to flush permissions to the SHARE, the FOLDER or the FILE :-(

I have the same problem, permissions just get lost and changing during usage or the smb service just gets unresponsive, basically it is not usable anymore and get worse with every update. I'm switching now to a linux smb server there is no point using MacOS for file sharing ...

I had the same problem with a new Mac Mini that came with Mojave installed; we aren't running Mojave or Catalina on any of our older Macs. The change to SMB fixed it -- but why does Sharing pref panel allow you to select AFP if it doesn't work in that OS? I don't know what the default is, as we had copied system prefs from an older iMac.

Perhaps the hype for newest OS in the App Store could include some release notes that warn of this kind of thing?

I've upgrade to Catalina, all the updates and the latest temp fixes too ... and File Sharing still changes it's set and permissions after a reboot.

Surely there is a way, some system files to wipe out or reset to clear the systems sharing and permissions and fix this lingering jam?

This is a user to user group. Apple does not participate. Send a bug report, or a feedback, https://www.apple.com/feedback/macos.html

Have a nice day.

Has anyone found a solution for this problem?

Thank you.

Bryan

I updated all iMacs to Mojave. I followed the instructions above, selecting SMB as a File Sharing option (I had them all off previously) as well as APFS and all works well now.

For those mixing OSX try turning on SMB and turning off AFP; that's what worked for me with Mojave and El Capitan sharing public folder>drop box

holy fuck Apple, how is this still an issue?????