Overview

SmbMate is a SMB client for Palm OS-compatible devices.
SMB (Server Message Block) client/server protocol was designed primary for sharing resources (files, printers, devices) across networks. Now SMB protocol as well as its inheritor CIFS (Common Internet File System) is used on many platforms and operating systems. The most popular implementation of SMB protocol is the Microsoft's implementation. The Microsoft Windows OS family uses SMB/CIFS for sharing their files and printers across network. There are SMB implementations for UNIX, MAC and other platforms.

SMB is client/server protocol. It means that must be a server that share their resources and a client who communicates with a server and uses resources. SmbMate is a client implementing SMB over TCP/IP transport.

By using SmbMate you can:

You can even print to remote shared printers! :-) Seriously, SmbMate (still) has no true printing support but you can print prepared (somewhere outside) files to printer by connecting to printer as if were a disk and copying file from Palm to printer.

SmbMate supports translating between PDA's and server's charsets. Currently the following charsets recoding implemented: Win1251, Koi8-r, Dos866, Western Win1252, Latin1 Dos850, US Dos437

SmbMate supports standard 160x160 display resolution, HiRes (320x320) for PalmOS 5.0 or higher, Sony HiRes+(320x480,480x320) for PalmOS 5.0 and higher, Dynamic Input Areas for PalmOS version 5.3 or higher.

SmbMate was tested by author successfully with the following SMB servers:

According to users feedback, SmbMate was successfully tested with Samba on Mac, Samba on Linux. Other members of MS Windows family also were tested successfully. Probably you will have some problems with MS Windows 3.11 for Workgroups :-) but I'm not sure.

SMB server must support NT LM 0.12 protocol for normal interconnection. The most of modern servers do that.

Screen shots

Main form Connection properties
File browser Local file browser, Sony landscape display
Full screen mode Progress info
Shutdown server

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