<?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.5-Based Variant V1.1//EN" "dtd/kdedbx45.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE"> <!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE" > <!-- change language only here --> ]> <article id="smb" lang="&language;"> <articleinfo> <title>&Windows; Shares</title> <authorgroup> <author>&Mike.McBride; &Mike.McBride.mail;</author> <author>&Jost.Schenck; &Jost.Schenck.mail;</author> <!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> </authorgroup> <date>2016-11-10</date> <releaseinfo>Frameworks 5.29</releaseinfo> <keywordset> <keyword>KDE</keyword> <keyword>Systemsettings</keyword> <keyword>Windows shares</keyword> </keywordset> </articleinfo> <sect1 id="windows-shares"> <title>&Windows; Shares</title> <sect2 id="windows-shares-intro"> <title>Introduction</title> <para>In many small local area networks, the &SMB; protocol is used to offer network services. Names like <quote>&Windows; Network</quote> or <quote>&Windows; for Workgroups Network</quote> or <quote>LanManager</quote> are often used as well. Using &SMB; you can access so-called <quote>shares</quote> (&ie; folders made available by the server) as well as printers.</para> <para>&kde; comes with built-in support for the &SMB; protocol. As &kde; is network-transparent that means you can access &SMB; shares from everywhere you can access your local files, for example in the &konqueror; file manager and in the file dialog. To make use of this you should provide &kde; with some information on your &SMB; network. But don't worry, this is normally pretty simple as, for example, all the &Windows; clients in your network need and have the same information.</para> <!-- Don't know if the following info should go in the base documentation --> <!-- this smb KIO worker doesn't support showing a list of hosts (like e.g. smb:/), for this you need the lan or rlan KIO worker, very cool thing (TM) btw. If you want to write some documentation for this one too, have a look at kdenetwork/lanbrowsing/lisa/README and contact me if you have questions. --> <note><para>For the &SMB; protocol to work, it is required to have &Samba; correctly installed.</para></note> <!-- TODO: link to some place which explains USING SMB, i.e. konqueror or file dialog manual --> </sect2> <sect2 id="windows-shares-use"> <title>Use</title> <para>Although there are a lot of insecure &SMB; networks out there which allow access to anyone, in principle you have to authenticate yourself to access the services of an &SMB; server. By default, &kde; will use the data entered in the <guilabel>Default user name:</guilabel> and <guilabel>Default password:</guilabel> fields to authenticate itself on &SMB; hosts. If you leave the field <guilabel>Default user name:</guilabel> empty, &kde; will try to access &SMB; hosts without a username. If you leave the default password empty, it will try without a password. If &kde; is unsuccessful accessing the host using these settings, you will be asked for a username and a password.</para> <important><para>While it makes things more comfortable if &kde; stores your &SMB; password, this may be a security problem. If you are using &SMB; in a security conscious environment, you should not store your password here but rather enter it anew every time you need to access an &SMB; host.</para></important> </sect2> </sect1> </article>
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