Sharity will allow you to 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 is a powerful tool, a client for the CIFS (Common Internet File System) protocol, formerly known as SMB (Server Message Block).
This is the file-sharing protocol used by Windows NT, 95, 98, 2000, ME, Windows for Workgroups, OS/2, Samba and many others. Sharity mounts these servers in your file system.
Mounting means that you can open files directly from the server with any application you like, as if they were on a local disk.
Other clients (such as smbclient from the Samba suite) provide only an ftp-like interface where you can copy files to and from the share but cannot open them directly on the server.
Here are some key features of "Sharity":
· 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.
· Internationalized for English and German, character set conversion for Asian encodings.
Limitations:
· There are a couple of conditions where you can use Sharity for free. Students can register a regular license for free. If you run Mac OS X, Linux or FreeBSD at home, our binary package for these platforms (beginning with version 2.4) has a "Sharity Single" license built-in. All others may use Sharity in demo-mode for free. Demo-mode is limited to 3 levels of directory hierarchy.
· Only one installation.
· Only one mounted share.
· Only one user.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· A bug which caused directories to be treated as plain files on Solaris 10 has been fixed.
· Several rare issues which could cause a crash have been fixed.
· Improved compatibility with non-Windows servers.
