FreeBSD SMB Client under OSX Host

I recently purchased a new Macbook Pro and wanted to get a FreeBSD Virtual Machine set up in order to continue doing development work on it. Unfortunately, FreeBSD as a guest does not support native folder sharing so I decided to try using a samba mounted.

I decided to set up my VM to have two network interfaces: a NATed interface for internet access and a host-only interface for access to SMB and ssh.

The NAT networking configuration looks like:

NetworkName:    FreeBSDNatNetwork
IP:             10.0.2.1
Network:        10.0.2.0/24
IPv6 Enabled:   Yes
IPv6 Prefix:
DHCP Enabled:   Yes
Enabled:        Yes
Port-forwarding (ipv4)
        SSH IPv4:tcp:[]:5022:[10.0.2.4]:22
Port-forwarding (ipv6)
        FreeBSD ssh:tcp:[]:6022:[fd17:625c:f037:2:a00:27ff:fefc:9dab]:22
loopback mappings (ipv4)

The Host-Only networking configuration looks like:

Name:            vboxnet0
GUID:            786f6276-656e-4074-8000-0a0027000000
DHCP:            Disabled
IPAddress:       192.168.56.1
NetworkMask:     255.255.255.0
IPV6Address:     
IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength: 0
HardwareAddress: 0a:00:27:00:00:00
MediumType:      Ethernet
Status:          Up
VBoxNetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet0

The FreeBSD configuration looks like this: The OSX sharing configuration looks like:

Unfortunately, when attempting to actually mount the SMB filesystem with: mount_smbfs -I 192.168.56.1 //eax@192.168.56.1/shared_vbox I get the error mount_smbfs: can't get server address: syserr = Operation timed out

I tried installing the package net/samba36 and found that I needed the --signing=off flag to let it work:

It seems based on this setup and research that FreeBSD can not natively mount an OSX samba share. It might be possible to use sysutils/fusefs-smbnetfs. Other people have recommended NFS or sshfs.