Description:

GNOME VFS is the GNOME virtual file system. It is the foundation of the
Nautilus file manager. It provides a modular architecture and ships with
several modules that implement support for file systems, http, ftp and others.
It provides a URI-based API, a backend supporting asynchronous file operations,
a MIME type manipulation library and other features.

This package contains a GNOME VFS module for access to network resources using SMB protocol (also known as "Windows shares"). With this module, you can open URIs that begin with smb: prefix. Install it if you use GNOME and there's a Windows machine with shared resources in your network.