Security Update - now can't connect to external drive - The alias could not

Hi, I loaded the new security update and now cannot connect to my external hard drive connected to my Airport Extreme. It sees the network and tries to mount the drive, but they I get an error saying "the alias could not be found...." I can't get further.
Anyone have any ideas? Or I can I set up the external drive again?
Thanks!

i'm getting the same error trying to connect to either my imac or a lacie 2big ethernet raid drive. the first time i got this error was after connecting my other ibook to the imac as one of my other users. since then, my main ibook throws this error on every connect attempt.
weird thing is the mount succeeds. the shared files are accessible. the mount can even be "ejected". but each connect throws this "error code -35" popup. additionally, none of my machines has spaces in its system name or in its shared directories. just simple names like store2big, itunes, jeeeem, etc. most baffling.

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