Connecting LION to an OLDER SMB

After upgrading to Lion I can no longer connect to any of the OLDER versions of SMB on older versions of Windows or NAS devices.  Connecting to NEWER versions of Windows or various NAS devices works fine.  This is an issue with both many of my clients which have numerous MAC which they want to upgrade to LION and my business environment.  The gist is if can not correct the clients want to stay at Snow Leopard since there would be a cost in hardware services.

For those of you trying to access SMB shares, I found a free and easy solution.
Since a lot of people report they are able to access their NAS using apps other than the Finder itself, I decided to look for a free Lion-compatible File Manager to use instead of Finder.
I have found muCommander ( http://www.mucommander.com/ ) and indeed it works fine. All I did was click on the button highlighted bellow, go to "bonjour services" and select my NAS. It prompted me for my username and password and voilá, it works fine.
I keep Finder for everyday use and just load muCommander when I want to access the NAS. At least now I don't have to start my WinXP VM anymore just to access it.
Hope it helps you all.

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