Sharity: smbmount for Unix
Connect your Unix computer to any Windows, Samba or other SMB/CIFS Server. Sharity is a cross platform network file system mounting Windows shares transparently, just as if they were part of your local hard disk.
Sharity 3.6 is now available
See the Release Notes for details about the latest improvements.

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Feature Overview

  • Superset of Linux smbmount/smbfs functionality.
  • Built-in trial mode and free student licenses available.
  • Access to directories exported by Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Samba, and others.
  • Automatic resource location: Network browsing similar to Windows Network Neighborhood.
  • Available for Sun Solaris, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, IBM AIX, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Tru64 Unix and Mac OS X. Others on request.
  • Secure authentication with NTLM, NTLMv2, NTLMSSP and Kerberos.
  • Supports Microsoft's DFS (Distributed File System).
  • Access to Windows 2000 domains: Active Directory browsing and Kerberos authentication.
  • Tools to read and modify Windows Access Control Lists (ACLs).
  • User interaction with Graphic User Interface (GUI) or command line.
  • Keychain database for managing server, share and domain passwords.
  • Internationalized for English and German, character set conversion for Asian encodings.

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