"An error occurred" "access denied" after MacOS Catalina update

I am unable to access any of the external drives attached to my MacBook. The share settings are the same as prior to the update, only now I get a “access denied” message.
I tried to use the drive on a different Mac (w/ catalina) and I have the same issue.

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Hi,

Same thing with me.
all i did was: open system preferences on iMac/Sharing/file sharing/share files and folders using SMB - uncheck and then check back again.

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Worked great!