Ever wonder who uses what IP on your network? Does your IP record book older than the Jurassic age? Do you use dynamic ip on your network? If you answered yes to all of these questions (hopefully silently), then you must have Smb4K as part of your System Administrator’s toolbox - or desktop shortcut. Whatever.
Smb4k, as defined in their website, is SMB/CIFS share browser for KDE. It uses the Samba software suite to access the SMB/CIFS shares of the local network neighborhood. Its purpose is to provide a program that’s easy to use and has as many features as possible.
In layman’s term, it works much like the Network Neighborhood browser in Microsoft Windows platforms. With Smb4K, you can check which computers are connected on the same workgroup or domain, browse network shares, or look for the NetBIOS name of a certain ip.
Personally, I use Smb4K for searching the NetBIOS names of ip’s on our office network. It is quite handy, as a matter of fact, you just type in the ip address on the Search Dialog and Smb4k searches your network for a match. If it finds one, it displays the NetBIOS, or computer name, that matches the query.
If you want to browse the network, click on the Network Browser and the workgroups on your network are displayed there. You can also access the network shares as long you have the permissions to do so.
These are just some of the features offered by Smb4K, the rest is up to you to discover for yourself. If you want to install Smb4k, it is available through download on their website or use yum:
# yum search smb4k
# yum install <smb4k package>
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hi there! kumusta kabayan! OK to blog mo.
keep up the nice linux blogging. and have a nice day ahead!
mabuhay ka pinoy!
(dito na rin ako ng comment out, know who’s who on your network daw sabi sa blog
cheers
thanks for the support, kabayan!
so nice to know that someone is reading my blogs (aside from me, of course
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