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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. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPL v2+). Linux, FreeBSD and its derivatives as well as NetBSD are officially supported.

The documentation for Smb4K is available online as HTML version and as PDF file. The source code is hosted at invent.kde.org. Binary packages for different distributions and architectures can be downloaded from the openSUSE Build Service.

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For a quick overview, visit our project's summary page. If you want to rate Smb4K or write a review, go here. Bugs can be reported here.

Latest News

Smb4K 4.0.5 (security bug fix release)

by Alexander Reinholdt 2025-12-10

This version of Smb4K fixes two security issues found by the SUSE security team:

  • CVE-2025-66002: local users can perform arbitrary unmounts via smb4kmounthelper due to lack of input validation
  • CVE-2025-66003: local users can perform a local root exploit via smb4k mounthelper if they can access and control the contents of a Samba share

Special thanks go to Matthias Gerstner from the SUSE security team for his support and guidance in creating the fix.

Please note that due to the fixes applied, no mount prefixes except the one under /var/run/smb4k are supported anymore! So we suggest that you unmount your shares from the current mount prefix before installing this new version. Otherwise you might not be able to umount them anymore (except you restart your computer).

Please also note that the handbook does not reflect the changes yet. This will be done in a later release.

Have a look at the Git commit history for more information about the changes.

The source can be downloaded from our download section. Binary packages for several distributions and architectures are provided here, when they are ready.

Smb4K 4.0.4 released

by Alexander Reinholdt 2025-07-31

The Smb4K project is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 4.0.4 of its advanced network neighborhood browser and Samba share mounting utility. This version fixes several bugs in the mount dialog, ports Smb4K away from a deprecated class and updates the README.md.

Have a look at the Git commit history for more information about the changes.

The source can be downloaded from our download section. Binary packages for several distributions and architectures are provided here, when they are ready.

Smb4K 4.0.3

by Alexander Reinholdt 2025-06-15

The Smb4K project is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 4.0.3 of its advanced network neighborhood browser and Samba share mounting utility. This version fixes a bug in the credentials manager that prevented home shares for which passwords had not yet been saved from being mounted.

Have a look at the Git commit history for more information about the changes.

The source can be downloaded from our download section. Binary packages for several distributions and architectures are provided here, when they are ready.

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