Hello all,
My setup is freshly installed FreeNAS 9.3 on a ASUS motherboard with I5 processor, 8GB DDR3 RAMand 2x1TB WD Red drives.
I have setup a CIFS share and a AFP share on it and everything seems to be fine until I try to access the CIFS share using Windows 8.1 PC from a certain location.
The error message I get when I try to do so is: "The semaphore timeout period has expired"
The funny thing is that I can access the share from a Windows 7 PC that is at the same location and network as the Windows 8.1 PC
I know that this Windows 8.1 PC can access the share if it is in different network, say at a friend's house.
I strongly suspect that the ISP (Sky UK) is filtering this traffic somehow but I don't know how they can differentiate win7 from win8.1 traffic, given that they probably use same ports. If I'm at the location where I can't get the share mapped and I use VPN connection to some other place, everything works fine.
The router does not have any filters in place and there are no firewalls active on the PC either. At the FreeNAS site I used DMZ to expose the NAS to the public space.
Is there something else I can try or test that I can perform to pinpoint the problem or should I just use WebDAV shares as they seem to be more universaly accessible?
I only had one more issue with my setup but changed the max protocol to SMB3. That fixed transfer stalling when transfering from Win8.1 PC to the CIFS share.
My setup is freshly installed FreeNAS 9.3 on a ASUS motherboard with I5 processor, 8GB DDR3 RAMand 2x1TB WD Red drives.
I have setup a CIFS share and a AFP share on it and everything seems to be fine until I try to access the CIFS share using Windows 8.1 PC from a certain location.
The error message I get when I try to do so is: "The semaphore timeout period has expired"
The funny thing is that I can access the share from a Windows 7 PC that is at the same location and network as the Windows 8.1 PC
I know that this Windows 8.1 PC can access the share if it is in different network, say at a friend's house.
I strongly suspect that the ISP (Sky UK) is filtering this traffic somehow but I don't know how they can differentiate win7 from win8.1 traffic, given that they probably use same ports. If I'm at the location where I can't get the share mapped and I use VPN connection to some other place, everything works fine.
The router does not have any filters in place and there are no firewalls active on the PC either. At the FreeNAS site I used DMZ to expose the NAS to the public space.
Is there something else I can try or test that I can perform to pinpoint the problem or should I just use WebDAV shares as they seem to be more universaly accessible?
I only had one more issue with my setup but changed the max protocol to SMB3. That fixed transfer stalling when transfering from Win8.1 PC to the CIFS share.