Get Started

SmbMate uses your default network connection on Palm. Please make sure your Palm can connect to network successfully. Setup your network connection via Palm's Preferences before using SmbMate.

  1. Starting SmbMate you will get blank screen. First of all, tap on menu button and select "Preferences".
  2. In Preferences form set the following parameters for your connections:
    Hostname Default SMB name of your PDA.
    Username Default user/login name for connecting to servers
    Group/domain Default workgroup or domain name for connecting to servers
    Translate charsets Set this checkbox if your PDA's and servers charsets are different (for example PDA uses ANSI charset and SMB server uses OEM charset). Go here to learn more about charsets on SmbMate
    Backup connections database Do or do not backup connections database via HotSync. For security reasons only because database contains hashed SMB passwords. Learn more about SMB passwords in FAQ.
    Keep connection up exit Controls whether SmbMate keeps established network connection up on exit or does not.
    Download optimization. Allows to select optimization method for downloading data from server to external memory cards. There is no the best method for all devices. Test and compare! And don't forget tell me the results :-) You can know more about speed and optimizations here
  3. Tap on "Save" button to return to main form (still blank)

  1. Press "New" button in main form to create a new connection record. Whenever it possible, new connection is created with the pre filled values which are copies of Preferences ones
  2. Enter connection-specific parameters:
    Name Just name, for reference and description only
    Resource Path Path to your SMB resource. Must be in format \\ServerName\ShareName (Universal Name Convention UNC format). Server name is a NETBIOS name of server. In most cases server accepts universal name *SMBSERVER but sometimes you need specify exact server name (especially for old-style SMB servers, Win9x for example).
    An example: you want to connect to server BOSS and see shared folder TopSecret. Your resource path is \\BOSS\TOPSECRET or \\*SMBSERVER\TOPSECRET.
    Resource Type Just for information only
    IP address TCP/IP address of server. DNS or dotted form. Here is explanation why should you specify TCP/IP address if you already have \\ServerName
    Username Your login name for server.
    Group/Domain You connect as some user which belongs to some workgroup or domain name. Set that workgroup or domain name here. For non-domain systems this parameter is ignored often.
    Password Password to connect to server. Learn more about SMB passwords in SmbMate in FAQ
    Translate charsets The same as in Preferences.
  3. Tap on "Save" button to save new connection and return to main form.

  1. Tap on "New connection" to connect to server (see next topic) or tap and hold until popup menu is displayed:
    Send Message Send a message to server. Go here to learn more about sending messages
    Edit, Delete, Duplicate Modify,delete or make copy of existing connection record
    Shutdown Shutdown/reboot server. Go here to learn more about it
    Inspect Inspect server. Go here to learn more about it

  1. Upon connecting to resource SmbMate tries to log in and load directory list. Use menu commands, popup lists, toolbuttons and other screen objects for working.

  1. Use File Properties form for see and change additional info for selected file. You can rename file and change attributes. File properties form available only from popup list menu which can be accessed via tap-n-hold on selected file.

  1. Connection info (accessible via menu). You can see some interesting info about current connection and synchronize time between your PDA and remote server.

  1. Send message to server. This is an equivalent of net send command or sending message via WinPopup application on MS Windows platform. For receiving of this message you should have started WinPopup (or some third-party chat software) on Win9x/Me or Messenger service on Win NT/2000/XP/2003. Or any other software listening on server's \\MAILSLOT\LANMAN mailslot.
    Each platform has it's own restrictions on message's length. Usually message is limited to 150-200 symbols.
    Sender's computer/user - your sign for the message. In most cases it does not matter for delivering what you put here. It can be important for recipient only :-))))
    Recipient's computer/ip address - server's SMB name/IP address. Note that probably you will need to specify a real server name, not *SMBSERVER, because many servers don't accept *SMBSERVER for messages
    Recipient's user
    - to whom you address the message. It's up to you what you will put here
    Additionally you can translate message between charsets.

  1. Shutdown/reboot server This feature works only with MS Windows NT servers and you have to have a special permissions for doing that action, for example - be member of Administrators group. You can shutdown server ar once, delay shutdown, reboot it or abort requested shutdown (if shutdown time has not arrived). Additionally you can specify popup message alert on server for users and force users applications to close (with losting all unsaved data)

  1. Inspecting server allows you see some interesing info about users, groups, shares. This feature will work only with MS Windows NT platform and currently NULL-session (login with empty user and password info) is used for access. Not all NT servers allow to login via NULL-session (due security reasons)

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