DM800 cannot mount Windows 8 Shared USB HDD

I do not think this is strictly an OpenPLi problem but I have tried everything I could and searched through the forums and web with no luck.

I have a DM800HD (Pli 2.1) and a DM7020HD (PLi 3.0) and I can setup mounts to share the HDDs between them, I can also see and access their HDDs with my Windows 8 Pro PC and access the files on the DMs.

I cannot get to setup a mount on either the DM800 or DM7020HD with Mount Manager to see a shared USB HDD on the Windows 8 PC.

If someone has figured this out could they post the procedure so I can fix this issue?

I assume it is a Windows 8 issue but I am at a loss on the settings to change to get this working.

I have shared (Everyone) an external USB drive in Windows 8 and have tried upper/lowercase entries in the DM mount manager.

Here is the entry from the automounts.xml but when I try and connect it freezes the DM800HD and I must power down to get the DM working again:

<cifs>

 <mount>

  <active>True</active>

  <hdd_replacement>False</hdd_replacement>

  <ip>192.168.x.xxx</ip>

  <sharename>MainPC</sharename>

  <sharedir>H_USB_External_HDD</sharedir>

  <options>rw</options>

  <username>XxXxxxXxxxxxxXX1</username>

  <password>xxxxxxx</password>

 </mount>

</cifs>

Any help would be welcome.