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Intro
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This program provides you a graphical interface for browsing MicroSoft Net. On linux I know only 1 program which can do it - 'smbclient'. This program works as a X-shell for it, by simple analyzing output of it. So this program interface dependent - it can fail easily if output of 'smbclient' is changed. Using this program you can easily access different workgroups, hosts, and shares on it, mount this shares.

Using this program, you can easily view hosts in different work groups, view available shares and directories in it. You also can download files
     and (recursively) directories.
Navigation.
Clicking on Group, Host, Share will open it.
Clicking on files in Remote will download it, and start "launcher"(If you have it).
You can select 'recursive get directories' in directory popup.
You can select 'mount share' in share popup.
Attention! While downloading file in the current Share you can do nothing in it. But you can open another, or reopen current. And file will be downloading while you doing some other acttions.


Passwords.

TkSmb support 2 types of passwords - passwords for hosts and for shares. Once you typed password for current host, it will be stored in memory and reproduced when accessing this host. Hosts password used as a default for shares on the host. Password for shares is also stores. If you type password in dialog and click on host/share to it (stored) password will be updated. You can define passwords for different hosts/shares in rc file (see rc-file). If you want use one password for all shares/hosts push radiobutton "Keep".
Rc-Files:
TkSmb support 2 rcfiles:
system wide - in TkSmb lib directory (name tksmbrc)
user specific - in home directory (name .tksmbrc)
Hear some variables to set:
DOWNLOAD - Download location
MountRoot - Directory in which will be created directories like _HOST_SHARE with mounted resources.
keeppw - (no|yes) checkbutton - keep password.
You can see examples: tksmbrc.example, tksmbrc


Launcher:

It is a program that can make assigned actions with different kinds of files. You can download and install it, if you want TkSmb to make some acctions with downloaded files.
Mounting:
TkSmb will automaticly determine what version of kernel you run. And run smbmount will according parameters. If you have (old or new) smbmount renamed, you can set variable (in rc file) "set smbmountNew smbmount.new" or "set smbmountOld smbmount-". You can also define in rc file "set MountRoot $env(HOME)/mnt" to mount in mnt subdirectory of you HOME.

I found one powerfull way to use remote files with TkSmb. For this you should have installed autofs, samba-2.0.6 or later, and you must have root permissions to add some rules to automounter.
Follow instructions in autofs/README.automounter

TkSmb written on expectk language which is standard extension for Tcl and Tk and is included in TclTk source package (tcltk-8.0-12.src.rpm) but in compiled versions some times distributed separately (tcl-8.0-12.i386.rpm, tclx-8.0.0.0-12.i386.rpm, tk-8.0-12.i386.rpm, expect-5.24-12.i386.rpm). Preferred that you have corresponding
version of expect and TclTk (it is not means that version must be equal: expect have version number less than TclTk). Program tested on expect-5.24. In order to use this program you also must have samba package.
If you use redhat 5.0 without patches (upgrades) you possible have glibc-2.0.5c-10.i386.rpm. After run the program you will get:
spawn ???
failed to get controlling terminal using TIOCSCTTYparent sync byte write:
broken pipe
in order to make program work you must upgrade your glibc package. you can download it from:
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/Linux/redhat/redhat-5.0/upgrades/i386
If you want to be able to mount smb-shares you must have smbfs enabled in kernel and 'smbmount' in your path. (TkSmb supports mounting only in kernels versions 2.0.xx )

To assign action on data types when downloading files you should install 'Launcher'.

You can use launcher:  to view (make some other actions with downloaded files)
If you use want to use 'launcher' you can get it hear.

INSTALL program works only under X. To install you must have appropriate
write access.
To install type:
./INSTALL
If you have problems with fonts enter font as a parameter:
./INSTALL fixed

Install options description:

• See BUGS file.

If you have something to send me: bug reports, suggestions, patches.
mailto:ivan@rt.mipt.ru

You can download TkSmb from:
http://www.rt.mipt.ru/frtk/ivan/TkSmb/download.html
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/shells