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0009 <articleinfo>
0010 <title>&Windows; Shares</title>
0011 <authorgroup>
0012 <author>&Mike.McBride; &Mike.McBride.mail;</author>
0013 <author>&Jost.Schenck; &Jost.Schenck.mail;</author>
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0015 </authorgroup>
0016 
0017 <date>2016-11-10</date>
0018 <releaseinfo>Frameworks 5.29</releaseinfo>
0019 
0020 <keywordset>
0021 <keyword>KDE</keyword>
0022 <keyword>Systemsettings</keyword>
0023 <keyword>Windows shares</keyword>
0024 </keywordset>
0025 </articleinfo>
0026 <sect1 id="windows-shares">
0027 <title>&Windows; Shares</title>
0028 
0029 <sect2 id="windows-shares-intro">
0030 <title>Introduction</title>
0031 
0032 <para>In many small local area networks, the &SMB;
0033 protocol is used to offer network services. Names like
0034 <quote>&Windows; Network</quote> or <quote>&Windows; for Workgroups
0035 Network</quote> or <quote>LanManager</quote> are often used as
0036 well. Using &SMB; you can access so-called
0037 <quote>shares</quote> (&ie; folders made available by the server)
0038 as well as printers.</para>
0039 
0040 <para>&kde; comes with built-in support for the &SMB;
0041 protocol. As &kde; is network-transparent that means you can access
0042 &SMB; shares from everywhere you can access your
0043 local files, for example in the &konqueror; file manager and in the
0044 file dialog. To make use of this you should provide &kde; with some
0045 information on your &SMB; network. But don't worry,
0046 this is normally pretty simple as, for example, all the &Windows;
0047 clients in your network need and have the same information.</para>
0048 
0049 <!-- Don't know if the following info should go in the base
0050 documentation --> 
0051 
0052 <!-- this smb KIO worker doesn't support showing a list
0053 of hosts (like e.g. smb:/), for this you need the lan or rlan KIO worker,
0054 very cool thing (TM) btw. If you want to write some documentation for
0055 this one too, have a look at kdenetwork/lanbrowsing/lisa/README and
0056 contact me if you have questions. -->
0057 
0058 <note><para>For the &SMB; protocol to work, it is
0059 required to have &Samba; correctly installed.</para></note>
0060 
0061 <!-- TODO: link to some place which explains USING SMB, i.e. konqueror
0062 or file dialog manual -->
0063 
0064 </sect2>
0065 
0066 <sect2 id="windows-shares-use">
0067 <title>Use</title>
0068 
0069 <para>Although there are a lot of insecure &SMB;
0070 networks out there which allow access to anyone, in principle you have
0071 to authenticate yourself to access the services of an
0072 &SMB; server.  By default, &kde; will use the data
0073 entered in the <guilabel>Default user name:</guilabel> and
0074 <guilabel>Default password:</guilabel> fields to authenticate itself on
0075 &SMB; hosts. If you leave the field <guilabel>Default
0076 user name:</guilabel> empty, &kde; will try to access
0077 &SMB; hosts without a username. If you leave the
0078 default password empty, it will try without a password. If &kde; is
0079 unsuccessful accessing the host using these settings, you will be
0080 asked for a username and a password.</para>
0081 
0082 <important><para>While it makes things more comfortable if &kde;
0083 stores your &SMB; password, this may be a security
0084 problem. If you are using &SMB; in a security
0085 conscious environment, you should not store your password here but
0086 rather enter it anew every time you need to access an
0087 &SMB; host.</para></important>
0088 
0089 </sect2>
0090 
0091 </sect1>
0092 
0093 </article>