Software update has broken file sharing

Hi,
I ran software update for the first time in a few weeks yesterday ... and now my file sharing is broken. I have 2 USB drives shared from my mac mini running Leopard and I access them on my MBP (running Leopard and Win XP). I couldn't connect to either drive after the restart, but everything is the same in System Prefs > Sharing. None of the shortcuts I used previously work, and trying to access the mac mini by IP address yields nothing either (although it is pingable).
Any help on this matter would be greatly received, thank you.
andy

I know this doesn't solve the problem but I'm having the same issue trying to connect to my iMac G5 PPC 10.5 from my Intel MacBook running 10.6. I got frustrated and did a Time Machine restore from about a month ago and it worked like a charm. Once I did my System Updates on the iMac though... No dice. So it's definitely the update- I know for me at least knowing what the problem is helps some. May just be a glitch in the update in which case all you can do is wait...

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Dave Sawyer wrote:
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