Smb4K comes with two alternative views: an icon view and a list view. They are both shown below. The icon view is the default.

The icon view:

The list view:

You can switch between the two views by selecting the appropriate entry in the View Modes submenu of the tool bar, in the menu bar under Shares or in the shares view's popup menu.

By default, only your own mounts are displayed. However, you can adjust Smb4K to show all mounts with the respective settings.

In the shares view, several options are defined. They are present in the menu bar under Shares, in the tool bar, and in the popup menu. The following options are available:

The popup menu includes all the actions that can be performed on a mounted share:

It can be opened by clicking the right mouse button.

The tooltips provide information about the remote location of the share, the mountpoint, the user and group, the login, the file system, the disk usage, and the free disk space. If the share is inaccessible, these values are marked as unknown.

Tooltips are enabled by default. You can deactivate them in the configuration dialog.

Smb4K periodically checks all mounted shares if they are still accessible. If an inaccessible share is encountered, it will be marked with a lock symbol and you will not be able to open or synchronize it anymore. Unmounting and adding a bookmark is still possible.

Shares owned by other users are only shown if you adjusted the settings to display them. In the default configuration, you are not allowed to unmount these shares, but you can change this behavior, too.

A mounted share is indicated by a small, corresponding symbol in the lower corner of the folder icon. This changes to a lock for shares that are not accessible. For shares that belong to another user, it is replaced by a warning sign.

Smb4K supports drag-and-drop in the shares view. To transfer or link data to a share, drag the files and/or folders over the share icon and drop them there. A popup menu will open asking you what to do. Choose the appropriate action (copy, move or link).

To avoid the popup menu, press the Shift key for moving, the Ctrl key for copying and the Ctrl+Shift key combination for linking while dragging and dropping. The transfer will only be successful if the share was mounted with read and write permissions.

You can also drag and drop the whole share to the desktop or to another application (e.g. Dolphin). Again, a popup menu will open asking you, what to do. When choosing the appropriate operation, please remember that under most circumstances moving and linking the share might not be a good idea.

One or multiple selected shares may be unmounted by either clicking the Unmount (Ctrl+U) action, or by pressing its keyboard shortcut. By default, the ability to unmount a share is restricted to the ones that are owned by you. This behavior can be altered in the configuration dialog. If you enabled the unmounting of shares that are owned by other users, you will be presented with a warning dialog prior to the actual unmount. If you proceed, the share will definitely be unmounted. So, please think twice before you decide to unmount those shares!

Smb4K provides the ability to force unmounting of shares (Linux® only). This can be useful with inaccessible shares that cannot in be unmounted the normal way. To enable this feature, you need to modify the settings in the configuration dialog. Smb4K will then perform a lazy unmount on inaccessible shares.

All shares can be unmounted at once by clicking the Unmount All (Ctrl+N) action. Depending on your settings, this will also unmount foreign and inaccessible shares.

After a successful unmount process, the user is notified. If unmounting fails, a notification with the returned error message is shown.

For the selected shares custom settings can be defined. Click the Add Custom Settings (Ctrl+C) action to open the Custom Settings dialog. For more details, please see this section.

The Synchronize (Ctrl+Y) menu item opens the synchronization dialog. It offers the mount point of the share as the source and a path below the synchronization prefix as the destination. To update the data on the share, you can swap the destination with the source by clicking the Swap Paths button.

Clicking the Synchronize button starts the synchronization and a progress dialog is shown that shows details about the transfer.

The synchronization can be canceled at any time by pressing the stop button to the right of the progress bar.

Smb4K provides two possibilities to open a mounted share: