macOS Catalina – Fix SMB Connection to External Thunderbolt Drive

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After upgrading to macOS Catalina, I can no longer connect to one SMB drive from my MacBook Pro with MacOS Mojave. The share is stored on an external Thunderbolt drive.

It always shows an error message that shows that I don't have permission.

I can connect to other shares which are stored on the internal hard drives.

Best Answer

To solve this issue you have to do the following:

  1. Open System preferences
  2. Click on Security & Privacy
  3. Click on the Lock in lower left corner to unlock
  4. Click on Full Disk Access
  5. Click on the + button
  6. Navigate to /usr/sbin
  7. Seach for smbd and select it
  8. Click open

Now the SMB daemon should have permission to connect to the external drive.

System Preferences - Security & Privary

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