The Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol is a network file-sharing protocol.
The SMB Configuration contains the necessary details to establish an SMB Connection with a file server. It also allows you to save and store connections.
NAME | An identifier to uniquely identify this Configuration |
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Description | This should describe the Configuration. |
Status | Active or Inactive. Configurations cannot be used in a processing sequence while they are in inactive status. Supplied activities will end in error if they attempt to use a configuration that has inactive status. |
Server | The IP address of your mail server. |
User | The user profile is to be used to connect to the file server. |
Password | The password that is used with the user profile to connect to your file server. |
Domain | The domain of the file server that you are connecting to. |
There are several activities supplied for file and directory management, discovery, and transportations.
You connect with a file server using activity SMB_CONNECT
After processing has been completed the connection to the server is closed using SMB_DISCONNECT
| Refer to SMB Activities for a list of all supplied SMB Activities |