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

To see the workgroups, enter smb:/.

smb://a_workgroup will list the hosts in this workgroup.

To see the shares of a host, enter smb://the_host or smb:/a_workgroup/the_host.

To access a share directly enter smb://the_host/the_share or smb:/a_workgroup/the_host/the_share

The smb ioslave requires that you have libsmbclient to use this ioslave.

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. The kioslave will ask for your username and password if a default is not set.

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

Author: Alexander Neundorf (neundorf AT kde.org)