The smb ioslave enables you to browse the shares of a windows (or samba) network. It is a wrapper around the command line tool smbclient, which is part of the samba distribution. You need to have samba installed to use this ioslave. Since it uses the smbclient tool, this ioslave supports everything what your installed samba supports. To be able to authenticate to Windows NT Domain Controllers you need at least Samba 2.0. To be able to access the shares of Windows 2000 machines, you need at least Samba 2.0.7. Currently the ioslave is read-only, i.e. you are not able to write to remote shares. The current smb ioslave also doesn't provide a list of running hosts, you should use the lan or rlan ioslave to get a network neighbourhood.
To see the shares of a host, enter `smb://the_host`, to access a share directly enter `smb://the_host/the_share`.
You can set your default user name and password in the KDE Control Center 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, this is in most cases not required.
This ioslave is tested and developed mainly using samba 2.0.7, but other versions of samba should work too.
Author: Alexander Neundorf