Smb4K README (version 0.3.2)
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Smb4K is an SMB share browser for KDE. Its aim is to provide a tool for an
easy access to the SMB shares of your local network neighborhood.

Features so far:
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- Scanning for (active) workgroups, hosts, and shares
- Mounting and unmounting of SMB shares, including unmounting all shares at once
- Access to the files of a mounted SMB share using Konqueror
- Auto-detection of external mounts/unmounts
- Mounting of recently used shares on start-up
- Miscellaneous infos about the SMB shares
- Basic network search
- WINS server support
- Preview of SMB shares
- Selectable look-up method
- Default login
- Translations: German, Catalan, Swedish, Polish, Chinese Simplified, Russian, 
  Brazilian Portuguese

Requirements:
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Smb4K requires the development files of the following libraries to be
present on your system in order to compile:
- Linux (>= 2.2.x)      [http://www.kernel.org]
- KDE (>= 3.1.4)        [http://www.kde.org]
- Qt (>= 3.2.0)         [http://www.trolltech.no]
- XFree86 (>= 4.1.0)    [http://www.xfree86.org]
- Glibc (libc6)         [http://www.gnu.org/software/libc]

Make sure that you also have installed all header files of the libraries Qt
and KDE are depending on.

You'll might also have to have automake (>= 1.7.8) and autoconf (>= 2.57)
installed.

To run Smb4K, it is mandatory that you have the following programs
installed:
- Samba                 [http://www.samba.org]
- grep                  [http://www.gnu.org/directory/grep.html]
- GAWK (GNU awk)        [http://www.gnu.org/directory/gawk.html]
- sed                   [http://www.gnu.org/directory/sed.html]
- findutils             [http://www.gnu.org/directory/findutils.html]
- util-linux            [ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux]

And finally, support for the /proc filesystem is required.

Bugs
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You are strongly encouraged to send a bug report, if you find a problem:
http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?group_id=769

Copyright
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Smb4K is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
A copy of that license is available in the file COPYING.

Latest Version
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You can always obtain the latest stable version of Smb4K from
http://smb4k.berlios.de.

From time to time the Smb4K team releases unstable code for testing purposes.
You can find it under ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/smb4k/testing.

You might want to check out the latest development code using anonymous CVS: 
 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.smb4k.berlios.de:/cvsroot/smb4k login
 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.smb4k.berlios.de:/cvsroot/smb4k co smb4k
When prompted for a password, simply press the Enter key. 
