# openvas-smb

**Repository Path**: ossim/openvas-smb

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: openvas-smb
- **Description**: openvas-smb
- **Primary Language**: C
- **License**: GPL-2.0
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2025-09-08
- **Last Updated**: 2025-09-17

## Categories & Tags

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## README

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# openvas-smb

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This is the `smb` module for the OpenVAS Scanner. It includes the
openvas-wmiclient library to interface with Microsoft Windows
Systems through the Windows Management Instrumentation API and a `wmic`
binary to execute queries remotely on that system.

## Installation

This module can be configured, built and installed with following commands:

    cmake .
    make install

For detailed installation requirements and instructions, please see the file
[INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md).

If you are not familiar or comfortable building from source code, we recommend
that you use the Greenbone Enterprise TRIAL, a prepared virtual machine with a
readily available setup. Information regarding the virtual machine
is available at <https://www.greenbone.net/en/testnow>.

## Support

For any question on the usage of `openvas-smb` please use the [Greenbone
Community Forum](https://forum.greenbone.net/). If you found a problem with the
software, please [create an issue](https://github.com/greenbone/openvas-smb/issues)
on GitHub. If you are a Greenbone customer you may alternatively or additionally
forward your issue to the Greenbone Support Portal.

## Maintainer

This project is maintained by [Greenbone AG](https://www.greenbone.net/).

## Contributing

Your contributions are highly appreciated. Please [create a pull
request](https://github.com/greenbone/openvas-smb/pulls) on GitHub. Bigger
changes need to be discussed with the development team via the [issues section
at github](https://github.com/greenbone/openvas-smb/issues) first.

## License

Licensed under the [GNU General Public License v2.0 or later](COPYING).

## History

This module is derived from a package distributed by Zenoss, Inc.,
named wmi-1.3.14. The original location was:
http://dev.zenoss.org/svn/trunk/inst/externallibs/wmi-1.3.14.tar.bz2

Since then, various special patches were applied for some needs of OpenVAS
Scanner. Also, anything not needed for OpenVAS Scanner was removed.

The Zenoss package actually was a copy of a code base of the Samba project
(https://www.samba.org/), forked based on the GPL v2 licensed status.