<article lang="&language;" id="smb"> <title >SMB</title> <articleinfo> <authorgroup> <author >&Alexander.Neundorf; &Alexander.Neundorf.mail;</author> <othercredit role="translator" ><firstname >Malcolm</firstname ><surname >Hunter</surname ><affiliation ><address ><email >malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email ></address ></affiliation ><contrib >Conversion to British English</contrib ></othercredit > </authorgroup> </articleinfo> <para >The smb ioslave enables you to browse the shares of a &Windows; (or Samba) network. </para> <para >To see the workgroups, enter <userinput ><command >smb:/</command ></userinput >. </para> <para ><userinput ><command >smb:/</command ><replaceable >a_workgroup</replaceable ></userinput > will list the hosts in this workgroup. </para> <para >To see the shares of a host, enter <userinput ><command >smb://</command ><replaceable >the_host</replaceable ></userinput > or <userinput ><command >smb:/</command ><replaceable >a_workgroup</replaceable >/<replaceable >the_host</replaceable ></userinput >. </para> <para >To access a share directly enter <userinput ><command >smb://</command ><replaceable >the_host/the_share</replaceable ></userinput > or <userinput ><command >smb:/</command ><replaceable >a_workgroup</replaceable >/<replaceable >the_host</replaceable >/<replaceable >the_share</replaceable ></userinput > </para> <para >The smb ioslave is a wrapper around the command line tool <command >smbclient</command >, which is part of the Samba package. This means you need to have Samba installed to use this ioslave. </para> <para >To be able to authenticate to &Windows; <acronym >NT</acronym > Domain Controllers, you need at least Samba 2.0. To access the shares of &Windows; 2000 machines, you need at least Samba 2.0.7. To be able to write to Windows shares, you need at least Samba 2.2.4 or the patch from <ulink url="http://lisa-home.sourceforge.net/smbclientpatch.html" >http://lisa-home.sourceforge.net/smbclientpatch.html</ulink >. </para> <para >You can set your default user name and password in the &kcontrol; in <menuchoice ><guisubmenu >Network</guisubmenu ><guimenuitem >Windows Shares</guimenuitem ></menuchoice >. This is especially useful if you are a member of a &Windows; <acronym >NT</acronym > domain. There you can also set your workgroup name, but in most cases this is not required. </para> <para >This ioslave is tested and developed using mainly Samba 2.0.7, but other versions of Samba should work too. </para> <para >Author: Alexander Neundorf <email >neundorf@kde.org</email > </para> </article>