[linMcHlp]

First, define your “Windows network”. Is that a Local Area Network aka LAN?

Is your ASUS AC-1300 router running its DHCP server? Or, are you using manual IP addresses for each LAN device?

Learn the LAN IP address of the Windows machine to which you are trying to connect the Linux machine. Try, simply:

smb://Windows_Machine_LAN_IP_Address/

For example, smb://192.168.22.32

[ducttape45]

I try that smb command and it comes back:

smb://192.168.50.183: No such file or directory

Yet I can ping the machine and that works fine.