Windows 8.1 Issues

[marcevan]

I have a dual-boot HTPC with Win7 64 and Win 8.1 64, both get static same IP by MAC of ethernet card.

For freenas I'm I have CIFs using guest account as prescribed by documentation.

Win7: Never had mapped drives disconnect or have //freenas links disconnect
Win 8.1: Continuously have these disconnect and reconnect

Win7 playout from Mediabrowser: Plays smoothly everytime
Win8.1: Continuously plays and stops then cannot play again though I check and am connected to source.

What I'm getting at is CIFs/Samba issues as if win7 and win8 are the only changes and they have different samba (2 vs 3) levels, then I believe it's between freenas and the samba/CIFs that it's using causing issues.

Again, it's the same client PC but in Win7 mode it's perfect, and Win8.1 it's getting horrible.

 

[marcevan]

turned on console messages and see a ton of these and no other messages:

Code:

Mar 13 17:53:03 freenas mDNSResponder: Unknown DNS packet type FFFE from 192.168.1.4 :49438 to 255.255.255.255:5353 length 42 on 0000000000000000 (ignored) 

 

[marcevan]

Logged bug 4565 as this is problem causing mDNS issue.