Namistai
Screenshots

NOTE: these screenshots were made with namistai 1.10, older and newer versions might look very different.


This is the standard index.html of Namistai, showing an example of how to use it. Note the text input field where you can copy+paste (or type :) your smb uri (smb://). Here we see the effect of browsing.
The workgroup AIR consists of 3 servers. You can begin to see the alternating lines to differentiate entries (and later to better see the matching sizes). The server PING has only one share, 'data'.
The share 'data' only contains one directory (this guy has nothing to share! :) 'linux-2.6.5'. As you have seen, there is almost no visible difference between servers, shares and directories. This is a shot of a subdir of the "data" share. The [TXT] links behind every file indicate the Force Text option, which forces the browser to interpret the file as a text/html file. Note that this option is disabled when a user agent such as wget is detected, to avoid double downloads.
Here we can see the Force Text option at work. The file COPYING, which would normally have been interpreted as a binary file (because it lacks an extention), is now displayed as a text/plain file (and conveniently displayed in the browser instead of saved to disk). This shot shows how our browser (Mozilla-Firefox) would normally interpret a file without an extention (or with an unknown extention). This is just fine for data files, but for text files it might be easier to be able to read them in the browser.