* [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-427]

A.  Introduction

    The protocol-smb plugins allows you to crawl Microsoft Windows shares. It implements
    the CIFS/SMB protocol which is commonly used on Microsoft OS. The plugin replicate the
    behaviour of the protocol-file over CIFS/SMB protocol. This plugin uses the JCifs library and also
    support all the properties from the JCifs library.

    You can find more information on the following site: http://jcifs.samba.org/
    The smb protocol syntax for crawling is as follow: smb://xxxxx (i.e. smb://server/share).
    
B.  Installation

    1) Binaries only:  

 The protocol-smb files can be found in the ../plugins directory.

				Copy the "protocol-smb" to NUTCHHOME/build/plugins directory.

                        Put the "smb.properties" file in the NUTCHHOME/conf directory.

                        Configure the properties in "smb.properties" file

                        Enable the plugin by updating "nutch-site.xml" file found in NUTCHHOME/conf directory

				e.g. <property>
    				     	<name>plugin.includes</name>
    				     	<value>protocol-smb| other plugins...</value>
    				     	<description>
 	 			     	</description>
 	 			     </property>