Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nautilus
When opening an SMB share (using the URL smb://u...@server/share),
Nautilus pops up a password dialog with the fields "domain" (pre-filled
with "WORKGROUP") and "password" and the standard "remember password"
radio buttons.
After filling in domain name and password and selecting "remember
password forever", the share is mounted. If I now disconnect the share
and try to reconnect it, the password dialog appears again - basically
disregarding my request to remember the password.
If I go into the passwords and encryption keys application (seahorse)
and look for the SMB password, I can see it is stored correctly,
including the correct domain name under the "details" tab.
I believe the problem is that Nautilus does not know which domain to
login under as the domain is not part of the SMB URL, and so fails to
locate the correct stored password. If I omit the user part of the URL
and if my local user name is not identical to the remote user name, then
the password dialog would also include a user name entry which would
probably also complicates things.
I think that Nautilus should lookup all the keys that match the details
provided in the URL (whether its just protocol and server or protocol,
user and server) and if only one stored password is listed then use that
automatically. If there are more then one then its a UI issue that has
to be though out: show a list? show the password dialog with one
password pre-populated?
I also think that its a shame that nautilus does not store the share
address in the keyring as people may want to provide different
credentials for different shares on the same server, but that is a
different report and one that does not interest me personally at this
time.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 27 12:59:30 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu7
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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Nautilus does not remember passwords to SMB shares in MS-Windows domain
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/461836
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