<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>

