Can't connect to Samba from Windows 8. Win 7 and XP work fine. Many popular solutions tried without success.

To cut the long story short, I have an android box on which is installed Servers Ultimate Pro app. I use this app to run a Samba server and share the contents of my 3TB external HDD connected to this box and use it as a media server over the wireless network.
This samba server is accessable from all my machines and devices - Win 7 Laptop, Win XP PC, and various other android devices using ES File Explorer. My Win 7 laptop has started to die on me, so I've got a new Win 8.1 laptop. The 8.1 laptop is unable to access
the samba server. I have tried various popular solutions (almost all the ones listed in http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/5dd9991b-78e7-4fa3-b17c-366e4ae0092f) to no joy. The bizzare thing is that I am able to map the samba server to
a network drive in Win 8.1, I am able to see the size of the samba server (says quiet accurately that 1.54TB free of 2.75TB total), but when I click the icon to open the drive, I get the infamous message: Z:\ is not accessible. The specified server cannot
perform the requested operation.
Of course the solution to the linked issue does not solve my problem since I presume Win 8.1 has this security patch KB2536276 built it and cannot be uninstalled. In order to completely rule out any Windows Update causing this issue, I did a clean reinstall
of Win 8.1 and still got the exact same issue.
Any suggestions?

Further checks reveal that my wife's Win 8.1 laptop and my Surface RT tablet are both unable to access the Samba share either... but are able to map the share to a network drive showing the free disk space.
Seems like a Windows 8.1 issue to me now... M$ where are you!!!

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