Windows shares not connecting from Thunar in Linux

I came across an issue where Windows network shares would not open using Thunar file manager in Slackware.

With a fair bit of digging around, I eventually downgraded samba from 4.15.13 to 4.15.5 which in my case was what was installed with Slackware 15.

Connect to Windows share from Linux command line.

An example of connecting to a Windows share from Linux command line;

smbclient //IP_ADDRESS/SHARE_NAME -U username

smbclient //192.168.254.198/public -U username

Then you will be promted for the password and find yourself at the smb: \> prompt.

You can then use;
ls for a listing of files
get filename to grab a file
cd folder to change directory
...etc

exit to exit

You can use the below example to mount a Windows share in Linux:

sudo mount -t cifs -o username="windows user name" //corefile01.core.local/dalzell/Shared/IT /mnt/tmp