In Computing, Sharity is a Unix program to allow a Unix system to mount Server Message Block fileshares. It is developed by Christian Starkjohann of Objective Development Software GmbH and is proprietary software. The current version is 2.10.

Sharity is a rewrite of an earlier program, Sharity-Light, which is free software under the General Public Licence (having been derived from smbfs in Linux) but is limited in capabilities and is no longer developed. Sharity-Light was originally called rumba (a pun on Samba software ), but the name was trademarked to another company. Sharity-Light runs in user space rather than kernel (computer science) space.

Sharity works by making an external SMB share appear to the kernel as an Network File System-mounted file system. (Compare to smbclient from Samba, which either provides an File Transfer Protocol-like interactive shell or sends commands to the Microsoft Windows file server to be executed remotely.)

The program runs on the following Unix and 4 and Linux.

Note that Linux (using smbmount from Samba), FreeBSD and NetBSD (using mount_smbfs) can mount SMB natively, but most other Unix and Unix-like operating systems cannot. However, in the commercial 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.

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