Smb4K

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.