I don't actually expect anyone to be able to help, this is more of a rant but I imagine others have the same problem. It's not really tied to any particular version (it's been an issue for as long as I can remember) but currently I'm using 12.7.2
One day I'll be able to connect to my Win10 computer with it's external drives and then the next day, no matter what I do, the connection will fail. The Network icon is always slow to show up in Finder - Locations either way but sometimes when it does I can hook right in and other times it will sit and spin until the connection fails. Why can't OS networking be more consistent??? Commiserate with me.
One day I'll be able to connect to my Win10 computer with it's external drives and then the next day, no matter what I do, the connection will fail. The Network icon is always slow to show up in Finder - Locations either way but sometimes when it does I can hook right in and other times it will sit and spin until the connection fails. Why can't OS networking be more consistent??? Commiserate with me.