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File sharing broken on Mojave

Just installed Mojave on my wife’s newish iMac (W). Still running High Sierra on my newish iMac (M). Having problems with File Sharing. The Public folder on W is inaccessible from M. File Sharing is turned on in System Preferences and the Public folder is listed as a Shared folder. If I choose W under the Shared heading in a Finder window sidebar I’m told that “Connection Failed” but the Disconnect button is available at the top right portion of the window. A drive that is connected to a USB port for backing up is available and I can access that drive. Also listed is PCI-Express Internal Physical Volume.

I tried running First Aid for W in the Disk Utility app - it hung. I’m about ready to go back to High Sierra because I don’t believe anything is set up incorrectly - instead Mojave is causing the problem and I don’t want to wait for Apple to fix it. Any thoughts?

iMac with Retina 5K display, macOS Mojave (10.14.1), null

Posted on Nov 5, 2018 5:40 AM

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Posted on Nov 23, 2018 2:26 PM

Having a similar issue. I have file-shared between my MacBook Pro & iMac for quite awhile now. Since upgrading the iMac to Mojave, the MacBook Pro can no longer pull up the shared folders on the iMac. The same login/pw remains. I can see the iMac, but get "Connection failed" when I put in the login/pw. Sharing screens and controlling it remotely DOES work. I then tried upgrading the MacBook Pro also to Mojave but it still is not working.


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It IS however, working in the other direction. The iMac can pull up the MacBook Pro. I noticed it is logging in with my Apple ID (same on both devices) and tried that from the MBP to iMac, and still got Connection Failed.


Any thoughts on what to tweak are appreciated!

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File sharing broken on Mojave

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