Sorting a container of shared_ptr<T>

Hello to everyone. I'm starting to take a look on Boost and was happy to find things like better smart pointers. Though, in my tests, I haven't been able to sort, say, a vector of shared_ptr without defining special comparators. I thought that the overload for the < operator would help me for that, but that operator compares pointers, not objects, so it doesn't do the work that I expected. I guess I'm not understanding this well. Could someone explain this to me? Saludos, Alex