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In this case, an authentication dialog will appear and you have to enter the correct user name (if not already provided) and password. &smb4k; will proceed mounting the share unless a wrong user name or password was supplied. In that case, the authentication dialog will reappear. If the mount process was successful, the user will be shown a notification and the share will appear in the mounted shares view. If mounting fails, a notification with the error message that was returned by mount.cifs8 (&Linux;) or mount_smbfs8 (FreeBSD) will be shown. -You can switch off the (purely informatory) mount notifications in the configuration dialog. - With a standard installation of &smb4k;, FreeBSD users might experience problems when they try to mount a share. This is due to misplaced DBUS and/or PolKit-1 config files. The section Remarks for FreeBSD Users : DBUS and PolKit-1 explains how to fix these issues. @@ -372,7 +370,7 @@ The preview dialog acts like a simple file manager. You can navigate through the contents of the remote share by clicking the folder icons in the list view and the Up, Back, and Forward button. The current location is displayed in the combo box on the right hand side. The Reload button reloads the contents of the current folder. - By default, the preview dialog only shows folders and files that are not hidden. You can change this behavior in the configuration dialog. File transfers or the like are not possible. + By default, the preview dialog only shows folders and files that are not hidden. You can change this behavior in the configuration dialog. File transfers or the like are not possible. @@ -586,8 +584,8 @@ - Unmount one or multiple selected shares. The ability to unmount shares is by default restricted to the ones that are owned by you. However, you can change this behavior by changing the settings in the configuration dialog. If no share is selected in the shares view, this button is disabled. - &smb4k; also provides the ability to force the unmounting of shares (&Linux; only). This might be useful with inaccessible shares that cannot be unmounted the normal way. To enable this feature, you need to modify the settings in the configuration dialog. + Unmount one or multiple selected shares. The ability to unmount shares is by default restricted to the ones that are owned by you. However, you can change this behavior by changing the settings in the configuration dialog. If no share is selected in the shares view, this button is disabled. + &smb4k; also provides the ability to force the unmounting of shares (&Linux; only). This might be useful with inaccessible shares that cannot be unmounted the normal way. To enable this feature, you need to modify the settings in the configuration dialog. Read the Unmounting Shares section for more details. @@ -693,7 +691,7 @@ The icon on the left hand side indicates that this share is not accessible. &smb4k; won't allow you to open it or to do synchronization with it. You will only be able to unmount or add a bookmark to it. The central icon indicates that the share is online, accessible, and owned by you. You may perform all available actions on it. -All shares marked with a red flag like the one on the right hand side are owned by another user. They are only shown if you adjusted the settings to display them. In the default configuration, you are not allowed to unmount these shares, but you can change this behavior, too. +All shares marked with a red flag like the one on the right hand side are owned by another user. They are only shown if you adjusted the settings to display them. In the default configuration, you are not allowed to unmount these shares, but you can change this behavior, too. @@ -721,7 +719,7 @@ If you click the Yes button, the share will definitely be unmounted. So, please think twice before you decide to unmount shares that are owned by other users! Inaccessible shares are unmounted with a "normal" unmount by default. If this should fail, you can configure &smb4k; so as to perform a lazy unmount on inaccessible shares (&Linux; only). All shares can be unmounted at once by clicking the &Ctrl; NUnmount All action. Depending on your settings, this will also unmount foreign and inaccessible shares. -After a successful unmount process, the user is notified. You can switch off this kind of purely informatory notifications in the configuration dialog. If unmounting fails, a notification with the returned error message will be shown. +After a successful unmount process, the user is notified. If unmounting fails, a notification with the returned error message will be shown. @@ -794,7 +792,7 @@ Especially adding a group may help you to organize the bookmarks. In the bookmark menu, all bookmarks belonging to one group will be arranged in a submenu with the group entry as parent (see below). -The label can be any text describing the share. In case you define a label, it will be displayed in the bookmarks menu instead of the UNC by default. If you want to change this behavior, you can do so in the configuration dialog. +The label can be any text describing the share. In case you define a label, it will be displayed in the bookmarks menu instead of the UNC by default. If you want to change this behavior, you can do so in the configuration dialog. @@ -875,7 +873,7 @@ In the tree view the bookmarks are arranged according to the groups they belong to. Bookmarks without groups are located at the top level. To rearrange bookmarks, the tree view offers drag and drop capabilities, so that you can move bookmarks around using the mouse. -If you want to edit a bookmark, you can do so by selecting it. The stored label, login, IP address and group name appear in the input widgets and become editable. In most cases, you do not need to touch the IP address and the login, because &smb4k; stored the correct values at the time you bookmarked the share. However, if the server got a different IP address (⪚ because DHCP is used on your local network) or your login changed, these entries should be adjusted. With the label you can give each bookmark a custom description. It will be used instead of the UNC address in the case this feature is enabled in the configuration dialog. The group entry, finally, helps you to organize your bookmarks. Especially if you use ⪚ your notebook at home and at work, it might be a good idea to create two groups "Home" and "Work" and save the bookmarks accordingly. +If you want to edit a bookmark, you can do so by selecting it. The stored label, login, IP address and group name appear in the input widgets and become editable. In most cases, you do not need to touch the IP address and the login, because &smb4k; stored the correct values at the time you bookmarked the share. However, if the server got a different IP address (⪚ because DHCP is used on your local network) or your login changed, these entries should be adjusted. With the label you can give each bookmark a custom description. It will be used instead of the UNC address in the case this feature is enabled in the configuration dialog. The group entry, finally, helps you to organize your bookmarks. Especially if you use ⪚ your notebook at home and at work, it might be a good idea to create two groups "Home" and "Work" and save the bookmarks accordingly. The tree view also offers a popup menu containing the following three actions. They can be used to add groups or remove groups and/or bookmarks. Screenshot of the popup menu of the bookmark editor @@ -974,7 +972,7 @@ - Unmount all shares at once. Depending on your settings, &smb4k; attempts to unmount either only those shares that are owned by you or all that are listed. + Unmount all shares at once. Depending on your settings, &smb4k; attempts to unmount either only those shares that are owned by you or all that are listed. @@ -1187,11 +1185,17 @@ Bookmarked shares can be mounted by left clicking the respective bookmark. Bookmark groups can be entered the same way. To edit or remove the bookmarks, you can press the Edit action button in the toolbar to open the Bookmark Editor. To get back to the toplevel the Back button is used. - - + + + + Notifications + ... + + + Remarks for FreeBSD Users @@ -1214,12 +1218,6 @@ - - -Mounting -Under FreeBSD, the SMB protocol is implemented in a different way than with other *NIX operating systems, and, thus, mounting of remote shares works differently. The major difference is the way the logon information is passed during the mount process. While under &Linux; and other operating systems that use Samba's mount.cifs8 program you may specify the user name and password within the command options or by setting the USER and PASSWD environment variables, under FreeBSD, all logon information is stored in the credentials file ~/.nsmbrc. If the logon information is not available there, you will not be able to mount a password protected share. -&smb4k; writes new logon information to the credentials file on the fly, so that it can be used immediately. If you use a WINS server, this one and a few more global things will be considered, too. However, the information &smb4k; writes to ~/.nsmbrc is limited: Only the name of the remote share, its workgroup, the login name (user name) and the encrypted password are provided. If you experience problems due to missing entries, you need to add them manually. - @@ -1232,7 +1230,7 @@ This section describes the settings that are available to configure &smb4k;. To open the configuration dialog, you have to click the Configure &smb4k;... menu item. - + User Interface @@ -1251,51 +1249,7 @@ - -General Settings - - -Notifications - - - - -Show notifications - - - - -The user is notified about actions that were performed, &ie; the mounting or unmounting of a share. If you do not want to be disturbed too often, you might want to switch this option off. Warnings and error messages are not affected by this option. - - -Default: selected - - - - - - - -Bookmarks - - - - -Show custom bookmark label if available - - - - -The custom description (label) of the bookmark is shown. It can be defined in the bookmark editor. - - -Default: selected - - - - - - + Network Neighborhood @@ -1321,72 +1275,6 @@ Default: selected - -Remote Shares - - - - -Show printer shares - - - - -Printer shares are shown. - - -Default: selected - - - - - - -Show hidden shares - - - - -All hidden shares except those of type ADMIN$ and IPC$ are shown in the network browser. - - -Default: selected - - - - - - -Show hidden IPC$ shares - - - - -Hidden IPC$ shares are shown. This option can only be chosen if you also ticked the Show hidden shares check box. - - -Default: not selected - - - - - - -Show hidden ADMIN$ shares - - - - -Hidden ADMIN$ shares are shown. This option can only be chosen if you also ticked the Show hidden shares check box. - - -Default: not selected - - - - - - Columns @@ -1460,6 +1348,8 @@ Default: selected + + Mounted Shares @@ -1625,21 +1515,6 @@ Default: not selected - - - -Show all shares that are mounted on the system - - - - -All mounts that are using either the CIFS (&Linux;) or SMBFS (FreeBSD) file system are shown. By default, only the shares owned by you are displayed. - - -Default: not selected - - - @@ -1665,24 +1540,26 @@ Default: selected - -Preview Dialog + + + +Miscellaneous Settings - -Hidden Files & Directories + +Bookmarks -Preview hidden files and directories +Show custom bookmark label if available -Show all files and directories including the hidden ones when opening a share's contents in the preview dialog. By default, this feature is deselected. +The custom description (label) of the bookmark is shown. It can be defined in the bookmark editor. -Default: not selected +Default: selected @@ -1691,12 +1568,12 @@ Default: not selected - + Network -The options in the Network configuration tab can be used to change the lookup method for the browse list, to make &smb4k; send authentication information when querying the workgroup master browsers, and to enable periodic scanning as well as the Wake-On-LAN features. If you want to adjust the behavior of Samba programs, see the Samba section. +The options located here can be used to change the lookup method for the browse list, to make &smb4k; send authentication information when querying the workgroup master browsers, to modify the behavior when previewing or looking up remote shares, and to enable periodic scanning as well as the Wake-On-LAN features. If you want to adjust the behavior of Samba programs, see the Samba section. Screenshot of the "Network" configuration tab @@ -1710,7 +1587,12 @@ Default: not selected - + + + + General Settings + + Browse List @@ -1776,9 +1658,9 @@ Default: not selected - + - + Authentication @@ -1797,9 +1679,76 @@ Default: not selected + + + + Behavior + + + + Lookup method for IP addresses + + + Define the method that is to be used to detect the IP addresses of the hosts. By default, nmblookup1 is used. + The following options are available: + + + + Use nmblookup command + + + Use the nmblookup1 command. + + + + + Use net command + + + Use the net8 command. + + + + Default: Use nmblookup command + + + + + Detect printer shares + + + Printer shares are detected. + Default: selected + + + + + Detect hidden shares + + + Hidden shares are detected. Hidden shares are ending with a $ sign, e.g. Musik$ or IPC$. + Default: selected + + + + + Preview hidden files and directories + + + Show all files and directories including the hidden ones when opening a share's contents in the preview dialog. + Default: not selected + + + + - + + + + Advanced Settings + + Periodic Scanning @@ -1831,9 +1780,9 @@ If periodic scanning is enabled, this is the time in minutes that elapses until - + - + Wake-On-LAN To be able to use the Wake-On_LAN capability of &smb4k;, you have to enable the setting in this section. The hosts that should to be woken up have to be defined through the custom options dialog. @@ -1862,15 +1811,16 @@ If periodic scanning is enabled, this is the time in minutes that elapses until + - + Shares -These options determine where &smb4k; will mount the remote shares and how it behaves on start-up and exit regarding mounted or recently used shares. If you want to configure the mount options, please see the Samba section. +These options determine where &smb4k; will mount the remote shares and how it behaves ⪚ on start-up and exit. If you want to configure the mount options, please see the Samba section. Screenshot of the "Shares" configuration tab @@ -1884,6 +1834,8 @@ If periodic scanning is enabled, this is the time in minutes that elapses until + + Directories @@ -1921,16 +1873,19 @@ Default: not selected - -Mounting & Unmounting + + + +Behavior - Remount recently used shares on program start + Remount shares - All shares that were mounted at the time &smb4k; was shut down will be remounted on program restart. This option affects only the shares that were mounted by you. + Remount all your shares that were mounted when you exited the program or changed a profile. If the remounting of a share fails, Smb4K will retry the next time it is started. Shares that were mounted by other users are ignored. + This setting does not affect the automatic remounting of shares when your computer woke up from a sleep state. Default: not selected @@ -1957,7 +1912,7 @@ Default: not selected Unmount all personal shares on exit - All mounted shares that are owned by you will be unmounted on program exit. + Unmount all shares that belong to you when the program exits. Shares that are owned by other users are ignored. Default: not selected @@ -1966,7 +1921,7 @@ Default: not selected Force the unmounting of inaccessible shares - Force the unmounting of inaccessible shares (&Linux; only). In case a share is inaccessible, a lazy unmount is performed. Before the actual unmount is performed, a warning dialog is shown asking to approve the unmount. + Force the unmounting of inaccessible shares (&Linux; only). In case a share is inaccessible, a lazy unmount is performed. Before the actual unmounting is done, a warning dialog is shown asking to approve the unmount. Default: not selected @@ -1980,23 +1935,33 @@ Default: not selected Default: not selected + + + Detect all shares that are mounted on the system + + + You will not only see the shares that were mounted and are owned by you, but also all other mounts using the SMBFS (FreeBSD) and CIFS (&Linux;) file system that are present on the system. + Default: not selected + + + + Checks + - - - -Interval between checks - - - -&smb4k; periodically checks for newly mounted and inaccessable shares with an interval that can be defined here. Under normal circumstances, you do not need to change it. But if the server you connected to suffers from high load, you should increase the interval to ease it's situation. The effect on your system's load is generally rather small unless you set the interval below 1000 ms (not recommended). -Default: 2500 ms - - + + + Interval between checks + + + &smb4k; periodically checks for newly mounted and inaccessable shares with an interval that can be defined here. Under normal circumstances, you do not need to change it. But if the server you connected to suffers from high load, you should increase the interval to ease it's situation. The effect on your system's load is generally rather small unless you set the interval below 1000 ms (not recommended). + Default: 2500 ms + + @@ -2020,77 +1985,52 @@ Default: not selected + + General Settings -Password Storage - - - - -Save logins in a wallet - - - - - The login names and passwords are stored in a subfolder named Smb4K of the current network wallet (default: "kdewallet"). The advantage of this method is, that the authentication data is stored permanently and encrypted on your hard drive. You only have to provide it once and the next time it is needed, &smb4k; will read it from the wallet. If you uncheck this option, the authentication data will either be stored temporarily or not at all (see below). - - -Default: selected - - - - - - -Remember logins during program run - - - - -If you do not want &smb4k; to store the authentication data in a wallet, you can decide whether it should be stored temporarily or not. If you uncheck this check box, &smb4k; will immediately forget the authentication data you provided and you will have to enter it everytime it is needed. This option has no effect if you chose to store the passwords in a wallet (see above). - - -Default: selected - - - - + Password Storage + + + + Save logins in a wallet + + + The login names and passwords are stored in a subfolder named Smb4K of the current network wallet (default: "kdewallet"). The advantage of this method is, that the authentication data is stored permanently and encrypted on your hard drive. You only have to provide it once and the next time it is needed, &smb4k; will read it from the wallet. If you uncheck this option, the authentication data won't be stored at all. + Default: selected + + + -Default Login - - - - -Use a default login - - - -The default login is used by default to authenticate to a server. If you enable this feature, a password dialog pops up, where you can provide the default login information. - -Screenshot of the default login input dialog - - - - - -The default login input dialog - - - -You have to fill in at least the user name. Empty passwords are supported. - -Default: not selected - - - - + Default Login + + + + Use a default login + + + The default login is used by default to authenticate to the servers in your network neighborhood. If you enable this feature, a password dialog pops up, where you can provide the default login information. + + Screenshot of the default login input dialog + + + The default login input dialog + + + You have to fill in at least the user name. Empty passwords are supported. + Default: not selected + + + + + Wallet Entries The Wallet Entries tab contains an editor with that you can modify or remove existing wallet entries. @@ -4084,7 +4024,7 @@ Quit &smb4k;. -Unmount all of the mounted shares at once. In the default configuration this is restricted to the user's shares, but this can be altered in the configuration dialog. For further information read the Unmounting Shares section. +Unmount all of the mounted shares at once. In the default configuration this is restricted to the user's shares, but this can be altered in the configuration dialog. For further information read the Unmounting Shares section. _______________________________________________ kde-doc-english mailing list kde-doc-english@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-doc-english