

There wasn’t any change to SMB documented in the release notes, so it could be random somehow, but I’m happy regardless. I didn’t want to jump the gun before some time and testing, but it appears that the most recent macOS update (13.2.1) has resolved my SMB network share issues! I’m now able to connect from my MacBook Pro to my Mac mini without issues, and the connection is stable and consistent. That does seem to work, but only temporarily for me. The common workaround is to turn file sharing off on the server, restart the machine, then turn file sharing on again. Apparently there are issues with SMB shares in Ventura, so that’s likely the actual culprit. Catalina Data Protections Break File SharingĮver since getting my new Mac mini server set up, I have had nothing but problems sharing its drive over the network.I rebooted a bunch of times trying to get to this work but I never thought to turn off file sharing before rebooting because, like, why would that make any difference?!

It worked and I’m back in business but… like… SERIOUSLY WTF?! I had to turn off File Sharing, reboot my computer, and then turn on File Sharing again.

I wasn’t able to connect from my Windows computer to my Mac anymore. Until now, this has been robust, reliable and fast.Īfter updating my MBPro to Ventura 13.0 and my iPhone to iOS 16.1 I cannot connect the laptop to the phone or to my old iMac, running Monterey 12.6.Īfter I installed macOS Ventura my File Sharing stopped working. Ensure the client machine can communicate to the server.I use the SMB file sharing system to access files on my MBPro from my iPhone 12, on my local network.Ensure the SMB share is configured correctly on the server.SmbX on macOS has full support for SMB1 and SMB2 SMB3 support is limited to message-signing schemes and doesn’t support newer features, such as compression. We are able to map our SMB share, and have the correct access given our share configuration. SMB is technically a suite of protocols consisting of older SMB1 and newer SMB2 and SMB3 specifications, which focus on improving security.Here we can see our SMB share is connected, and we can create a folder.We can also select the plus at the bottom to save this information if we need to reconnect. This document describes performance and user-experience optimizations for Apple macOS 11 (Big Sur) and 12 (Monterey) with the Dell Technologies PowerScale. In the address bar, enter smb://SERVER-IP/SHARE and click Connect.At the toolbar on the top of the screen, press Go and then “ Connect to Server…“.Enter the login to connect to the SMB share.In this menu, enter the server IP address in the following format \\SERVER-IP\SHARE-NAME and select Connect using different credentials.On a Windows client, go to This PC in File Explorer.This article will show how to connect to our SMB shares on Windows and MacOS clients.
