Connect a Samba share and browse its files and folders. This plugin is based on a php wrapper around the command line tool smbclient. This tool must be installed on the server and accessible in the machine path. If you want to manually set the path to the smbclient program, edit the plugin global configuration. Interestingly, there is a working alternative of smbclient installable on Windows, using Cygwin. See the detailed instructions here. In that case, you may have to enter the full path to the smbclient via the plugin configuration.
For a repository, a typical configuration can be
Like the ftp access driver with the auth.ftp, this smb driver can be used in conjunction with the auth.smb plugin to authenticate users directly against the samba share.
The SMB wrapper was first developped by Victor M. Varela.