Can not connect to SMB network drive

After upgrading to Lion, I am not able to connect to my Buffalo Terastation NAS box through SMB or AFP.  After some research on various boards, it appears that the samba implementation changed in Lion and will require an update to your NAS box firmware to get it to work.  Since this is not possible for the vast majority of customers (lack of vendor support, end customer technical ability, etc), I'm wondering if there is any official word from Apple to provide support for the previous samba implementation.

This might help.  I have a Seagate Dockstar (Pogoplug w/samba) with attached drives connected to my network that was easily discoverable with Bonjour in Snow.
From my experience -
I got the SMB share working (sort of) in Lion 10.7
While the network hub and connected drive(s) won't automatically appear as a Connected Server, or Bonjour Computer I was able to find the Dockstar by going to -
Go/Connect to Server and then enter it's specific info -  smb://fabx2d09fe (my device's actual number was different than this).
The dialog pops up for name and password - or connect as Guest.  I couldn't remember if I had set these so tried Guest and was able to access/mount the drive on the desktop and sucessfully read/write to/from it.
I may have to always connect to recent servers to get the thing to mount so it's not as automatic as Bonjour in the sidebar - but it does work!
This mostly solved the issue for my needs....maybe it would work for yours?

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