No, I accessed the share through Nautilus, as spelled out in an earlier message.
No HTML popups.

Network/Windows network/workgroup/computer/share name/folder contents.

By the way, in an earlier post, the person said they were stalled at the
"computer name" stage, when the computer was running a firewall. I suggest that
the firewall refused to reveal the computer name, although it would show the
share name, and then the folder contents, once he entered the IP address.