Free smb software for linux

Smb4K is a SMB and CIFS (Windows) share browser for KDE.
Smb4k uses the Samba software suite to access the SMB and CIFS shares of the local network neighborhood.
Its purpose is to provide a program thats easy to use and has as many features as possible.
Main features:
- Scanning for (active) workgroups, hosts, and shares
- Mounting and unmounting of SMB and CIFS shares, including unmounting all shares at once
- Access to the files of a mounted SMB or CIFS share using Konqueror
- Auto-detection of external mounts/unmounts
- Remounting of recently used shares on program start
- Miscellaneous infos about the mounted SMB and CIFS shares
- Network search
- WINS server support
- Preview of shares
- Selectable look-up and search methods
- Default login
- Ability to execute mount and umount SUID root (using super or sudo)
- Special handling of homes shares
- Ability to bookmark favorite shares
- System tray icon
- Support of advanced Samba options
- Support of printer shares
Enhancements:
- Reintroduced Polish translation provided by Jerzy Trzeciak.
- Updated Turkish translation and improved smb4k_add.desktop file.
- Fixed missing functionality of the --ignore-existing argument of rsync.
- Fixed net rap server domain command that is incompatible with Samba 3.0.25 (and later?).
- Fixed Smb4KPasswordHandler::readAuth() that returned a pointer that was freed when the function exited.
- Fixed broken Smb4KPrint::print() function.
- Fixed a bug in the preview dialog.
- Fixed DCOP-related hanging of Smb4K during KDE start-up.
- Fixed a potential memory leak in the bookmark editor.

mkautosmb makes the local SMB network browsable from Linux.
Main features:
- Autodetects hosts and shares on local (windows) network.
- Support for CIFS.
- Auto-discovery mode. No PDC required (but can be used also).
- Handles hosts with multiple IPs; the one on the current sub net will be used.
- Sets up autofs configuration for automatically mounting shares.
- Creates virtual hierarchy, e.g. /net using symbolic links, so shares are visible when browsing.
- Possible to specify several diffrent mounting options, including set login, file/dir mask uid and gid.
- Excluding, by pattern, of whole hosts or specific shares.
- Multi-threaded for really speedy updates.
Enhancements:
- Fixes to mount options for cifs. Note: in some kernels (at least in 2.4.22), cifs does not recognize mount option credentials although it should.
- Added invocation of modprobe during check for file system support.
- If no file systems are found to be supported, mkautosmb will abort.
- Added patch provided by Martin ?erstr?. Fixes/Reimplements discovery mode. Now using nmblookup broadcast instead of smbtree.

smblansearch is set of integrated tools that help you to find and download files you need on samba shares.
It consists of:
sls_main - frontend for sls_scanner
sls_scanner - console smb-scanner
qsmbdownloader - simple smb-downloader, that supports resuming and recursive downloads.
Enhancements:
- added size filtering
- sls_main sends workgroup name to sls_scanner now. this should fix bug with smblansearch and domain

Filesys::SmbClientParser is a Perl client to reach Samba ressources with smbclient.

SYNOPSIS

use Filesys::SmbClientParser;
my $smb = new Filesys::SmbClientParser
(undef,
(
user => Administrateur,
password => password
));
# Or like -A parameters:
$smb->Auth("/home/alian/.smbpasswd");

# Set host
$smb->Host(jupiter);

# List host available on this network machine
my @l = $smb->GetHosts;
foreach (@l) {print $_->{name},"t",$_->{comment},"n";}

# List share disk available
my @l = $smb->GetShr;
foreach (@l) {print $_->{name},"n";}

# Choose a shared disk
$smb->Share(games2);

# List content
my @l = $smb->dir;
foreach (@l) {print $_->{name},"n";}

# Send a Winpopup message
$smb->sendWinpopupMessage(jupiter,"Hello world !");

# File manipulation
$smb->cd(jdk1.1.8);
$smb->get("COPYRIGHT");
$smb->mkdir(tata);
$smb->cd(tata);
$smb->put("COPYRIGHT");
$smb->del("COPYRIGHT");
$smb->cd(..);
$smb->rmdir(tata);

# Archive method
$smb->tar(c,/tmp/jdk.tar);
$smb->cd(..);
$smb->mkdir(tatz);
$smb->cd(tatz);
$smb->tar(x,/tmp/jdk.tar);
See test.pl file for others examples.

SmbClientParser work with output of bin smbclient, so it doesnt work on win platform. (but query of win platform work of course)

A best method is work with a samba shared librarie and xs language, but on Nov.2000 (Samba version prior to 2.0.8) there is no public interface and shared library defined in Samba projet.

Request has been submit and accepted on Samba-technical mailing list, so Ive build another module called Filesys-SmbClient that use features of this library. (libsmbclient.so)

For Samba client prior to 2.0.8, use this module !

SmbClientParser is adapted from SMB.pm make by Remco van Mook mook@cs.utwente.nl on smb2www project.

PySamba is a Python library that provides a full wrapper for the Samba CLI library provided with samba-3.0.24.

PySamba is a full wrapper based in the work of Tim Potter. In fact, PySamba is built as a Python C extension over the cli library provided with samba-3.0.24 and a Python module that hides the complexity of the lower layer (smb) providing high-level commands like Mkdir or DiskAvail. At now, PySamba provides a fully functional samba wrapper, allowing the developer to interface any samba-capable device much like python’s ftplib does.

PySamba has been written by Juan M. Casillas and released under GNU GPL public License.

You need a gcc compiler, a python running environment (tested with 2.4.3) and the samba-3.0.24 sources. PySamba Has been developed under an UNIX environment (HP-UX) and tested against native NT shares.

Simple & Easy

from pysamba import * ... and go. Server login is encapsulated in the constructor, so just provide the require parameters, and start working with your favorite smb share. PySamba is easy to use, and easy to install.

Installation:

See the INSTALL file, but the installation process is the following:

Get Samba-3.0.24 and uncompress it.

copy py_smb.c and py_smb.h into samba-3.0.24/source/python replacing the existing files

go to samba-3.0.24/source and issue a configure --with-python=python. Then make , make install, make python_ext, make install This will install python’s dynamic library.

Import pysamba from the directory where pysamba is, or copy it to any place under the PYTHONPATH

Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.

Samba is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients.

Samba is software that can be run on a platform other than Microsoft Windows, for example, Linux, OpenVMS, IBM System 390, UNIX, and other operating systems. Samba uses the TCP/IP protocol that is installed on the host server.

When correctly configured, it allows that host to interact with a Microsoft Windows client or server as if it is a Windows file and print server.

Samba is a software package that gives network administrators flexibility and freedom in terms of setup, configuration, and choice of systems and equipment.

Because of all that it offers, Samba has grown in popularity, and continues to do so, every year since its release in 1992.

Sambascan2 is a small bash-script, which can scan for SMB-shares in a given Netz.
The project currently needs nmap, find, smbclient, sed and grep. If you know a less agressive way for scanning on port 139, please tell me, because I thing nmap is not so polite.
sambascan2 was only written to scan in public shares and not in private ones (this may change with the time).
It is possible, that the Share have a directory with other permissions than the one needed to access it. Check the permission of the wanted directory, and if Samba can access it as the public user.
Enhancements:
- This version adds the ability to scan password protected shares, using known logins and passwords for the host being scanned.

SambaLink/Q is an application for editing the sometimes confusing and rather complex smb.conf file for Samba. SambaLink/Q 2.0.1 is Linux only and for Qt 3.
Main features:
- Qt 3 support
- Warning if not starting as root.
- Warning if not saving smb.conf to a directory without proper permissions.
- The configuration file has been updated to cover up to Samba 2.5
- The configuration file (linkq.conf) is now moved to /etc