SBS 2008 - Windows 8.1+ clients trouble accessing file server shares

I have now upgraded 1 Windows 8 machine to Windows 8.1, and also clean installed another with Win 8.1 update 1 today, and both machines have trouble accessing the SBS2008 file server shares by UNC. If I browse by IP address of the server it seems to work
flawlessly. The odd thing is that it's sporadic. So if I browse in explorer to "\\*netbiosname*\share" the Win8.1 machine will sometimes be able to access the share, and other times it will fail with a "network unable to reach location etc.."
error. When it does work, it can take up to 5-10 minutes while explorer is frozen before the share is accessed. We're running quite a few Windows 8 machines without a problem, but it seems to be a specific problem with 8.1. Any idea?

This doesn't seem to fix this specific problem. I had a few days of "luck", but now it's back. I just upgraded another co-workers machine to Win8.1 and he advised me that he's been having the same problem even with the above fix applied. His issue
is when opening an office document that's located on the file server using location "\\servername\filename.xlsx", it takes a very long time (minutes) to open the excel file. This was happening to me as well, and if I tried to browse the network during
this period, Windows Explorer would sometimes give me path not found, and unspecified error. I will try and capture a screen of the error when it occurs. Any ideas??
edit: I have also noticed an unresponsive Windows Explorer for a few seconds to a minute over the last few days, which is a pretty good indicator that it's still happening on my machine.
The odd thing is, if I use the IP address of the file server, everything is fine. I changed all of my links to use the IP since October when Win8.1 was released to combat this problem, and only changed them back to the server name for testing since I want
to start deploying Win8.1 to others in the office. Unless I can fix this bug, they'll have to be stuck on Win8.
Thanks,
kk

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Basically what I did was this:
1. I set up DNS service using "Server Admin" (I am not sure if that was necessary but I did it anyways)
2. I "kerberized" my Open Directory service in "Server Admin". that made it possible to add users with "open directory passwords". it was enough to hit the "kerberize" button, so so went unexpectedly well.
3. I changed all passwords to open directory passwords.
4. I went back to "Server Preferences" to re-enable all services for users. those somehow got unchecked by whatever Server Admin did. probably you can do that in Server Admin/Workgroup manager, too, but I am not sure how and what I did at least worked.
Now everything seems to function properly. SMB as well as AFP access works and everyone has read/write-access to Public.
-chris.

SBS 2008 - Windows 8.1+ clients trouble accessing file server shares

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