# SMB

The smb ioslave enables you to browse the shares of a &Windows; (or Samba) network.

To see the shares of a host, enter ``smb://`the_host`. To access a share directly enter ``smb://`the_host/the_share`

The smb ioslave is a wrapper around the command line tool `smbclient`, which is part of the Samba package. This means you need to have Samba installed to use this ioslave.

To be able to authenticate to &Windows; NT 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.

Currently the slave is read-only, &ie; you are not able to write to remote shares. The current smb ioslave also doesn't provide you with a list of running hosts. You should use the lan or rlan ioslaves to get a network neighborhood.

You can set your default user name and password in the &kcontrol; in Network Windows Shares. This is especially useful if you are a member of a &Windows; NT domain. There you can also set your workgroup name, but in most cases this is not required.

This ioslave is tested and developed using mainly Samba 2.0.7, but other versions of Samba should work too.

Author: Alexander Neundorf neundorf@kde.org