Mac OS X Catalina File Sharing Issue

Thanks but I had tried the unticking/ticking routine without success. However, when I logged in today everything started working normally for no apparent reason, including remote access to the external drive.

Pete,

thx for the suggestion. Unfortunately not working for me. I did all that, restarted `finder', yet failed.

Basically the sharing options on system A control authorized access on files and folders on system A. That's another issue.

I'm running a MPB with Catalina and want to access by SMB a NAS on a different device of a different vendor (that's what standards are good for). I observe that all goes well, up to the point my PWD for the account on the NAS attached device is requested. Although keychain shows the proper UID/PWD combo, the 'connect to server' fails. It seems to deny the PWD, which is corrected (have tested by other means).

Any idea?

BTW: in all OSX systems before it was smoothly working. Catalina is not working correctly.

I have tried all the suggestions and still can't properly share some folders on my iMac (running Catalina) with my MacBookPro (running Mojave). I can see the Pictures folder and its content but for the Documents folder, I see the folder but don't see its content (only the folder icon)... Any suggestion appreciated.

i have android box. from it i was accessing data on my macbook's hardrive after upgrade to catalina "access denied" I did what was suggested here even before I read this article but it did not help...any other idea on why i can't access my macbook from my android box?

I have had the same issue. Used to use AirDrop to transfer files between my iMac and MacBook Pro, but my MB Pro is too old to update to Catalina, so my iMac updated to Catalina cannot find it in AirDrop. I used File Sharing at first instead, but it has become oddly "wonky". I could see the contents of the Pictures, Music and Movies folders on the iMac from the MB via File Sharing, but the Desktop and Documents folders have no contents. The toggling on and off of File Sharing has yet to work for me, perhaps it will in time. Things seem oddly unpredictable.

another "great" job from apple... plex server does not work. devices in my LAN just dont see it... on windows absolutely no problem but hey we are apple why would not we make things as much complicated as possible. I may sound angry but guess why...i think i'll say good bye to apple. is there someone having same issue?

i have DENON receiver for music and SONY TV for videos. when I run on windows machine i just run plex server and both devices see plex and whats on my laptop and disks connected to router via usb. but when on great catalina both of devices can't see plex server. i turned off firewall on catalina but it does not work. this crappy OS still somehow blocks my plex.

my friend this is not required. and you know why? because everytime my devices log on they get same IP adress. all the time. mac,denon and sony several restarts of devices and routers reboots and still they got same ips...most of new routers are working like this from exactly the reason you named...I tried on plex list of ips now from your screen. restarted devices and plex and result is the same. i will try tomorrow factorey reset both on denon and sony to see if there's problem but I dont expect it is the reason. catalina is the problem beacsue this happened right after i upgraded OS

Running Catalina 10.15.2 and my iMac cannot see my laptop on the same network. Tried unchecking and checking FileSharing, relaunching Finder, rebooting, etc.

The issues persist. My laptop cannot see the iMac and vice versa. Any other steps to try?

I'm still unable to connect to the laptop sitting on my desk. I have even created a new account, just to try and get to it. Every attempt just causes the dialog window to shake. Have tried the user ID on the MacBookPro, the Apple ID... have restarted, force quit the finder on both. Still unable to see the other drive.

Why is this all of a sudden so difficult?

Such a simple fix. i have looked all over Google for a week and couldn't get Desktop, Documents, or Downloads directories to show any files through either afp or smb. All other directories and ftp worked Ok. Thanks for this.

This fixed it for me as well, although I needed a reboot afterward. Everything is working again. Thanks!

legend, this worked perfectly thanks guys

Monsieur, did you try Ctrl-clicking on the Documents file name and selecting Sharing?

I also have this