Comment 9 for bug 46514

I made a couple of more interesting observations:

I got CIFS to work (where is the difference to SMBFS anyway, isn't that just another name for it?), but only via the SSH tunnel (listening on 445)! When mounted like that, it works. It's not fast, but it works, no more timeout errors, although I still get an occasional:

Oct 23 11:10:05 tron kernel: [ 5753.604000] CIFS VFS: Error 0xfffffff3 on cifs_get_inode_info in lookup of /.Trash-matthias/.hidden

Not sure what that means and if it's problematic at all, since as I said, I can browse my shares at least.

However, what still doesn't work at all is mounting the CIFS share directly without going through an SSH tunnel. The client just never gets a response back from the server. As I said, ports 445 and 139 are correctly forwarded and it works in the local network. It might be a server issue, but I doubt it.