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 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. To be able to write to Windows shares, you need at least Samba 2.2.4 or the patch from http://lisa-home.sourceforge.net/smbclientpatch.html. You can set your default user name and password in the &kcontrol; in NetworkWindows 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