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Apple’s SMB issues have existed waaay before Ventura. I manage a small business with 10-15 Macs that rely heavily on SMB file sharing. In 2018, after many hours of trial-and-error, I finally found a fix that has kept our uptime and our transfer speeds very high (over 100MBps for gigabit clients and around 1000MBps for Thunderbolt clients). Whether or not this helps with any Ventura-specific bugs remains to be seen since my server is running Monterey, but these steps should be performed regardless of which macOS version you're running to ensure a smooth and reliable SMB experience.

On the server (that is, if a macOS system is your SMB server... if not, skip this part)), you’ll need to disable .DS_Stores and turn off packet signing (Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208209). With file sharing off, run these commands and then restart the server:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server SigningRequired -bool FALSE

On your clients, it's also necessary to adjust SMB behavior to help keep things running smoothly as possible. To do so, you need to make adjustments to the nsmb.conf file that Apple explains here (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207520). But don't follow Apple's steps, there are many more options that need to be configured and I've laid it all out into a single command that you can easily copy/paste on all macOS clients (fyi, this will remove the existing nsmb.conf file, so if you have made important adjustments to it yourself, consider backing it up first):

sudo -s; rm /private/etc/nsmb.conf; echo "[default]\nsigning_required=no\nstreams=yes\nnotify_off=yes\nport445=no_netbios\nunix extensions = no\nveto files=/._*/.DS_Store/\nprotocol_vers_map=6" >> /etc/nsmb.conf; defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE; exit

Thats it! Occasionally, when a client doesn’t see or doesn't want to connect to your SMB server, flush the DNS cache on that client and it’ll connect again:

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

Scot1 said:

iOS_Guy80 said:

Wonder if you could use the 1st gen HomePod with the new gen 2 model as a pair. Would you see a major difference in audio from one to the other?

I believe it’s already been documented that you can’t mix and match the HomePods. They will not be compatible.

Well, you can’t set them up as a stereo pair… but you can airplay to both individually at the same time. It’s the same exact restrictions that have been in place with the OG HomePod and the mini’s this whole time.

Appleish said:

I went for a walk this morning listening to music in Spatial Audio. When I turned my head or a corner, the dynamic head tracking would stick in place for a couple of seconds before it adjusted to my facing. I think for music, you should be able to cut off the tracking and keep the Spatial part active.

You can disable the tracking for just music. Go to Settings > Accessibility > AirPods… then scroll to the bottom. This was the first thing I did on the beta. Motion tracking is not a good experience with music.