Sure it's annoying.
I ve try many system for supporting file sharing
freenas => serveur is discovered by network (under win 7 & 8.1)
nas4free ==> same
synology => same
zentyal 3.4 ==> same
zentyal 3.5 ==> no more (dont look for configuration a long time)
zentyal 4.0 ==> no more (even by changing smb.conf.mas with addition of local master/preferred master/win support)
This is really annoying, because common user dont know how to add a network directory, they only know how to search on network their server.
without this function, i all have to mix installation with
- zentyal (dhcp, openldap, openvpn, may be groupware is enough stable)
- NAS (file sharing, owncloud, zarafa)