Smb4K
Categories:This app is still in development and isn't released yet by the KDE community.


Smb4K is an advanced network neighborhood browser and Samba share mounting utility. It is based on the KDE Frameworks, QtKeychain, Samba's client library (libsmbclient) and, optionally, the KDSoap WS-Discovery client. It scans your network neighborhood for all available workgroups, servers and shares and can mount all desired shares to your local file system.
Features:
- Scanning for (active) workgroups, hosts, and shares using Samba's client library, DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD) and, optionally, Web Services Dynamic Discovery (WS-Discovery)
- Support of the CIFS and SMB3 file system under Linux as well as the SMBFS file system under BSD
- Mounting and unmounting of shares
- Access to the files of a mounted share using a file manager or terminal
- Auto-detection of external mounts and unmounts
- Remounting of previously used shares on program start
- Miscellaneous information about remote network items and mounted shares
- Network search
- Preview of the contents of a remote share
- Default login
- Special handling of home shares
- Ability to bookmark favorite shares
- System tray widget
- Support of advanced mount options
- Support of printer shares
- Support of several secure storage solutions for the login credentials via QtKeychain
- Synchronization of a remote share with a local copy and vice versa
- Ability to define custom settings for individual servers and shares
- Hardware support through the Solid device integration framework, the KDBusAddons convenience classes and the Qt Network module
- Wake-On-LAN capabilities
- Plasmoid for desktop integration
- Profiles for different network neighborhood setups
If you are working in a Windows dominated network environment, you may want to install this application to be able to easily access the provided Windows shares.