HI ersoohoo,
For total insight into and complete control over your Mac’s Internet connection, you’ll want to use Little Snitch. It’s a paid app, but it provides enormous control, allowing you to block or allow traffic on a process-by-process basis. Download and install Little Snitch from the developer’s website. You’ll need to reboot your Mac. Dec 12, 2012 Does exactly what you want. There's a free version, netportal lite, that does the same thing but only lets you access PDFs. Try downloading the free version first to see if you are able to get connected. I was able to easily on first try once I establised my VPN, ran this app, and entered in the local IP address, username, and password.
have you had a look at the security level on the two affected windows machines?
As from Windows 7, on your windows machine(s) effected, check the following registry key;
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlLsa
look for key KeyLmCompatibilityLevel
If this is already set to '1', change that from '1' to '3'.
It doesn't require a reboot and takes effect immediately.
Some people reported changing it from 2 to 3 and having the same positive effect.
Yosemite smb authentication is requiring NTLM 3 instead of 1 or 2.
-One other thing
Use the host file on windows machines as to never resolve the mac's name via SMB.
e.g., from windows
my_mac_name
did not work until it's added it to the host file
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