Out of the blue I have been receiving the error shown below whenever I tried mounting a samba share in finder:

For some reason the finder stopped being able to mount shares on any machine, anywhere…

The solution to this lies in mounting a share manually through the terminal. It seems that after I had connected to the machine using smbclient I was able to mount shares in the finder again.

Michael:~ michaelskelton$ smbclient //192.168.0.3/PUBLIC/ -U MICHAELSKELTON

Other useful commands I used when diagnosing the issue were: smbmount and smbtree .

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