Comment 6 for bug 1433213

It seems to be a Samba issue on this. I am now using Antergos which is ARCH Linux based. However it like all others still has no native Samba access out of box. I always seem to get the familiar Network Timed out.

afp is flawless and works great. I can even mount the NAS share at boot time by adding

gvfs mount afp:// path to share

Into a startup entry and then all my (most) applications are able to allow example playing music, or videos, content directly from my NAS drive. (Happens to be a Seagate Goflex Home).

Arch lacks gadmin-samba which I used on other distros to at least provide ability to even see WORKGROUP shares.
I discovered changing the discovery order moving wins to the left side and lmhosts to the right side.

Even with certain changes you still sometimes have timeout errors with Samba. I dont know if they will ever fix this or not.

I can still say that I have never seen out of box a Linux that remembers forever the passwords for Samba Shares or even sees any windows users out of the box. I know its just not possible for everything to be user friendly.
At least with Antergos it installs using online, downloading and updated as it installs, so it stands a chance of becoming user friendly on your first use..