Can't open Office 2011 files on CIFS/SMB shares.

I can't open Excel or Word documents if they are opened from a network CIFS/SMB share.  Excel returns something like "could not open because some content is unreadable" and offers to repair the document.  Word just questions if the document is corrupt and errors out too.  If I drag the same document to my desktop, it opens just fine.  Is something broken with SMB?  I'm running the latest Yosemite (10.10) upgraded from Mavericks 10.9.5.  Office 2011 is completely updated too.

I am having what I think is a intimately related problem, but which is somewhat more aggravated. I have a server set up using FreeNAS 9.3, which is configured as Windows+CIFS (SMB) in order to facilitate for Windows-based computers to join. Permissions are consequently set-up with a Windows client (a MBP running Win7 in Bootcamp). Everything works fine as far as access and file transfer goes, but using any application changes the experience.
Just to be explicit, my problem is not only related to MS Office files, but also to PDFs and PNGs (I assume it is related to ALL files, but those are the ones I have tested). The problem arises, as for you other, when I try to save from within the application after I have altered the file's content. I get different messages depending on the application, but they all share the problem of not being able to save and that they after showing that error message, change the filename on the server (in the case of Word, it becomes 'Word work file L_2.tmp').
I have tried connecting to the server using Win7 and changing the same file and that works just as intended. I have also tried setting up a dataset (folder) on the server with only AFP and Mac settings and that works fine, but as Apple shifted to SMB from Mavericks it is not that enticing to set up a server with a dying technology, which is why I insist on getting the Windows/SMB share to work.
I have also tried the tips provided in this thread:
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1253789
1. smb://FreeNAS
2. cifs://FreeNAS (should force SMB1)
3. smb://FreeNAS:139 (should force connection over Netbios instead of TCP/IP)
None works.
I have checked the log files /var/log/samba4/log.smbd and /var/log/messages on the server, but they do not provide any error messages in this respect.
Based on declure's suggestion, I have copied a new Word file to the server -> disconnected from the server -> reconnected using 'cifs://servername' -> opened the Word file and tried to save it -> same error message ("Word cannot save this document due to a naming or permissions error on the destination volume."). As this works in Win7 it seems as the real problem resides not with the application (or is Office for mac faulty?), but with OSX.
Any constructive suggestions would be appreciated as I really would want this to work using SMB.

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