Accessing external drive shared via Mac

[Donka]

I have an external usb drive I use for my Plex media. I have this set up as a shared folder so I can access it from the likes of my iPad to manage content. This worked fine for me using the likes of the FileBrowser app in the past but I haven't accessed it for a few weeks. I thought I would try it last night using the Files app in iPadOS. I can add my Mac via SMB and access all the local drives but when I try to access my external drive, it tells me I need to authenticate and offers me a link to open an app which doesn’t do anything, the link appears dead. I then tried using FileBrowser app and get access denied. I have tried using my iPhone as well now and the issue remains so I’m assuming this is an issue with the Catalina install which I upgraded this week.
I have tried sharing a sub folder from the drive as well as deleting and resharing the drive as well rebooting etc. and nothing related to the external drive is accessible remotely.
Does anyone have any idea why this no longer allows this remote access? The external drive is formatted as Mac OS Journaled, the same as the second internal drive on my Mac which can be accessed remotely just fine. It is only the external usb drive that is affected

 

[Donka]

For anyone that gets a similar issue, it turns out to be a bug with Catalina and some installs.

I actually managed to fix it using this link: https://www.fujitsu.com/global/supp...ipheral/scanners/scansnap/faq/ssh-once09.html

Going into the Privacy tab, SMBD was listed there for full disk access, I just unchecked that option, went out then back in and checked it again.
It is working fine now.

 

[hobro]

I have this issue as well. Can't access an external hard drive on a MacMini (running Catalina) from another Mac. SMBD is not listed for Full Disk Access. If I want to add this (which I obviously should to fix that problem), what do I have to add?

 

[Donka]

The first thing to try is to go to System Preferences->Sharing and untick “File Sharing” and then tick it again. This is supposed to grant the relevant system privileges for the smbd process (which controls Windows File Sharing).

If re-enabling File Sharing above doesn’t resolve the problem, you can add the smbd process to the Full Disk Access list.

1) Use Finder and from the ‘Go’ menu choose ‘Go to Folder’
2) Enter ‘/usr’ in the box and you should then see folders including ’sbin’
3) Highlight ’sbin’ and then from the File menu, choose ‘Add to Sidebar’. You should see sbin appear on the left.
4) Use System Preferences, Security & Privacy, Full Disk Access, and tap +
5) From the file chooser, select sbin from the left, then choose ’smbd’
6) Right-click the sbin entry in Finder and select Remove from Sidebar.

You might need to restart file sharing on the system preferences screen.

Let me know if this fixes it for you.

 

[gordonintx]

The first thing to try is to go to System Preferences->Sharing and untick “File Sharing” and then tick it again. This is supposed to grant the relevant system privileges for the smbd process (which controls Windows File Sharing).

If re-enabling File Sharing above doesn’t resolve the problem, you can add the smbd process to the Full Disk Access list.

1) Use Finder and from the ‘Go’ menu choose ‘Go to Folder’
2) Enter ‘/usr’ in the box and you should then see folders including ’sbin’
3) Highlight ’sbin’ and then from the File menu, choose ‘Add to Sidebar’. You should see sbin appear on the left.
4) Use System Preferences, Security & Privacy, Full Disk Access, and tap +
5) From the file chooser, select sbin from the left, then choose ’smbd’
6) Right-click the sbin entry in Finder and select Remove from Sidebar.

You might need to restart file sharing on the system preferences screen.

Let me know if this fixes it for you.

Thnak you! This still works for files shared on Ventura beta. Helped me a lot.

 

[2MacsJackson]

The first thing to try is to go to System Preferences->Sharing and untick “File Sharing” and then tick it again. This is supposed to grant the relevant system privileges for the smbd process (which controls Windows File Sharing).

If re-enabling File Sharing above doesn’t resolve the problem, you can add the smbd process to the Full Disk Access list.

1) Use Finder and from the ‘Go’ menu choose ‘Go to Folder’
2) Enter ‘/usr’ in the box and you should then see folders including ’sbin’
3) Highlight ’sbin’ and then from the File menu, choose ‘Add to Sidebar’. You should see sbin appear on the left.
4) Use System Preferences, Security & Privacy, Full Disk Access, and tap +
5) From the file chooser, select sbin from the left, then choose ’smbd’
6) Right-click the sbin entry in Finder and select Remove from Sidebar.

You might need to restart file sharing on the system preferences screen.

Let me know if this fixes it for you.

Thanks! Works on Monterey 12.6