What do you mean by windows network?
Did you dual install Mint in a cpu alongside an already existing windows 10 installation?
The “windows network” throws me too. Maybe rephrase it. Do you mean authenticate a Linux PC to a windows domain server?
In other words, I’d like to be able to click on the network and see my router, other Windows PC’s, the external hard drive hooked up to my router, things like that, that I can readily see from my Windows PC.