@3lmar It turned out it was a totally different problem. The solution is somehow related to pfsense, because I would not have found it without pfsense's package capture. My windows 10 notebook on the OpenVPN was trying to connect via port 80, which seemed strange. I learned it did that, because the share wasn't on the same subnet. The solution was to disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/networking/direct-hosting-of-smb-over-tcpip Sorry for having disturbed you. Maybe this helps anybody else, who like me wouldn't expect a problem with windows pcs connecting to windows pcs. I should have stayed with linux.