Ventura is Broken

TSI
TSI
edited May 2023 in SecuritySpy

Ventura will no longer automatically connect to servers or NAS at system startup. This important feature has worked perfectly all the way back to OS 7.1. Not anymore. I have opened a ticket at Apple. They have acknowledged that I am not the only one seeing this issue. Also, they moved the useful feature "wake or startup everyday at . . . " from a simple to use button, into the terminal, so now you need to type a command. These are both important features for many of my SS setups.

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  • JeffAlves
    JeffAlves

    I'm on Ventura 13.3.1 and my Mac has no problem automatically connecting to my NAS (Synology) at system startup.

  • TSI
    TSI

    Jeff, thank you for that information. I am on Synology also. One special thing about my installation is that the computers connect to the Synology over a dedicated 10Gb ethernet network. Maybe the problem is specific to a secondary NIC. What Version of DSM are you on?

    Thanks,

    J

  • Ben
    Ben

    I also don't much like the changes to the System Preferences, and the removal of the power schedule UI is really unfortunate. This useful feature is much more fiddly and error prone to set up via Terminal commands. I hope they reinstate this!

    I haven't heard of any specific issues mounting network devices, so it's interesting that Apple have acknowledged that this could be a widespread problem. If this is the case, hopefully it will be fixed in a near-future macOS update.

    When it starts, SecuritySpy will attempt to mount any disks that it needs. Perhaps the problem here is that the "Volume mount timeout" setting under Preferences > Storage is too low? Sometimes disks take a bit of time to mount, especially if they are HDDs that need to spin up.

  • Robbie
    Robbie

    I have a couple of Synology NAS and have found connectivity to have some quirks for some time. For example, one of my Macs (M2 Pro) connects to a shared folder on boot. It does this fine. But then drops the connection every so often and the only way to reconnect to the NAS is to restart the Mac???? This is a brand new Mac and it did it on my previous (Intel) Mac too.

    My other Mac (Intel) connects to three shared folders at boot and remains connected 24/7.

    Both are running the latest Ventura 13.4.

  • dahayes
    dahayes

    I am running 13.3.1a along with a Synology NAS. The M1 had an issue reconnecting 2 of 3 network drive on startup. I removed all 3 drives from General>Login Items>Open at Login. Restarted. Added the 3 network drives. Restarted. No issues for about 2 months now. DSM is 7.1.1-42962 Update4. Update5 is available, but im gonna wait a little while more.

  • bigpal
    bigpal

    I've had so many features with persistent SMB shares and reconnecting that I ditched it completely and connected a thunderbolt disk array instead. My windows computers can connect all day 24/7, for weeks on end without a disconnection. But all of my Macs randomly disconnect after a few hours, and this began with Monterey and got worse with Ventura, at least in my experience.

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