In Xfce desktop the defualt file manager is thunar.It appears similarly to Gnome’s Nautilus. To connect windows shared folder or samba shared directory from client machine which has Xfce Desktop,use the given command.

Open the terminal and type below given command,it will open the GUI of thunar

thunar smb://ip-address-of-machine

For eg. I have a shared folder called test located in system having ip address 192.168.1.2. The command will be like

thunar smb://192.168.1.2

It will open the window and in that you can see shared folders available in the system.