In this thread: Bionic Beaver can not discover samba hosts - netbios, the user Morbius1 did an amazing write-up of the sorrow situation we are in when trying to access Windows network shares form Ubuntu.

The topic was closed because "Bionic has been released". Since I just tried installing Ubuntu 18.04 from scratch and the exact problem persists, I kindly ask to reopen + make that thread sticky for all the poor souls like myself.

I also ask if someone has found a solution/workaround with 18.04.