Accessing Windows File Servers

First of all you need the following packages to be able to access windows file servers:

stephane@jerry:~$ sudo apt install smbclient smbnetfs

These packages give you some tools to check that you are able to access Windows share folders through the network using SAMBA protocols.

Here is some useful information : https://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Administration_r%C3%A9seau_sous_Linux/Samba

To test the server accessibility

stephane@jerry:~/Desktop$ smbclient -L corto -W phona -U stephane.guilet

The output gives you some useful information about the available services. In fact you can't access the root of CORTO but the services OK.

stephane@jerry:~$ smbclient -L corto -W phona -U stephane.guilet
WARNING: The "syslog" option is deprecated
Enter PHONA\stephane.guilet's password: 

	Sharename       Type      Comment
	---------       ----      -------
	ADMIN$          Disk      Administration à distance
	C$              Disk      Partage par défaut
	D$              Disk      Partage par défaut
	Groupes         Disk      
	IPC$            IPC       IPC distant
	Labos           Disk      
	Salle_Blanche   Disk      
	Test            Disk      
Reconnecting with SMB1 for workgroup listing.

	Server               Comment
	---------            -------

	Workgroup            Master
	---------            -------

If you choose to access the Salle_Blanche Disk Share Name then you can create a shortcut or directly via Thunar using :

smb://corto/Salle_Blanche

and then to create shortcut on the Desktop (Bureau) to access it faster:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Network CORTO
Comment=Open CORTO in Thunar
Exec=thunar smb://corto/Salle_Blanche
Icon=network
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
NoDisplay=false
Categories=X-XFCE;X-Xfce-Toplevel;
Terminal=false
Path=