Infuse sees but cannot connect to SMB share; VLC, all others normal

Just throwing in my own grief at this situation.

I don’t have a solution, but for the last year I’ve found myself attempting to share over SMB, and each time after several minutes of tinkering just caved and gave up due to lack of time. For the last month, though, I’ve been more serious about figuring out why, pouring several multi-hour sessions into this, and I’m stumped.

I’m also increasingly frustrated because like most people who have graduated beyond Single Male Basement Dweller, I can probably count in minutes per year the amount of time I actually get to myself, so pouring in so many hours into this just to fail every time is such a drain on my morale.

The most frustrating part of this, though, has to be that every other app I’ve used to connect to the SMB share does so flawlessly. I kept chalking up the lack of success to my own incompetence, but once I started testing with other apps, they all just worked.

Sharing to Infuse over SMB just does not work for me. This discussion seems to be the most recent and ongoing one, so at least now I can grieve with the others here.

For reference, this is what I’m using:

  • Infuse 7.6.1
  • MacOS Sonoma (14.0) with file sharing enabled

Any updates on this? Is the issue being investigated? Am I just going to be forced to start hosting various daemons again, which is the sole reason I moved away from all that complexity and settled on Infuse so many years ago now.

@James?

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