Sharity
In computing, Sharity is a program to allow a Unix system to mount SMB fileshares. It is developed by Christian Starkjohann of Objective Development Software GmbH and is proprietary software., the current version is 3.9.
Linux, and FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OS X, can mount SMB natively. Most other Unix and Unix-like operating systems cannot. In the proprietary Unix world, Sharity is a common solution to mounting SMB shares, as the usual recommended workaround — to run Services for UNIX on the Windows file server and make the share available via NFS — is frequently unreliable in practice.
Sharity works by making an external SMB share appear to the kernel as an NFS-mounted file system.
The program runs on the following Unix and Unix-like operating systems: OS X, IRIX, Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Tru64, AIX, NEXTSTEP, OpenStep, UnixWare, SunOS 4, and Linux.
Sharity is a rewrite of an earlier program, Sharity-Light, which is free software under the GPL but is limited in capabilities and is no longer developed. Sharity-Light was originally called rumba, but the name was trademarked to another company. Sharity-Light runs in user space rather than kernel space.
