DOLPHIN plus SAMBA equals PITA. Access to Windows shares the ''proper'' way.

[oshunluvr]

I know this is an old/common issue but all my searching finds is people wanting to avoid password entry. That's not what I'm after.

Windows 7 and 8 Pro clients with shared folders.

I can access the entire user filesystem on the Win 7 Pro machine by using the IP address like

smb://192.168.1.105

This prompted me for a username and password, which I stored. I then drilled down to the folder I wanted to see and I have access. So I saved the location in Places, no problem.

However, in Dolphin, there's a nice little icon labeled "Network." With it I can see all the Windows/Samba enabled PCs on my network. My server pops right up as does my Router share, but all the Windows PCs just "spin" and eventually timeout, even though I can access the share using the direct IP.

I launched Dolphin to see if any errors showed. Only these were shown and repeated:

[FONT=monospace][COLOR=#000000]org.kde.dolphin: URL= QUrl("smb://workgroup/")  charset= "Other encoding ()"[/COLOR]
org.kde.dolphin: could not find entry for charset= "Other encoding ()"
org.kde.dolphin: URL= QUrl("smb://carney@192.168.1.105/Users/Carney")  charset= "Other encoding ()"
org.kde.dolphin: could not find entry for charset= "Other encoding ()"[/FONT]

These don't look important to me.

However, in syslog every time I click a step in the Network part of Dolphin, I see messages like these:

[FONT=monospace][COLOR=#000000]Mar 29 10:01:36 office org.kde.kpasswdserver[2124]: org.kde.kio.kpasswdserver: User = "stuart" , WindowId = 0[/COLOR]
Mar 29 10:01:37 office org.kde.kpasswdserver[2124]: org.kde.kio.kpasswdserver: User = "stuart" , WindowId = 69206021
Mar 29 10:01:37 office org.kde.kpasswdserver[2124]: org.kde.kio.kpasswdserver: User = "stuart" , WindowId = 0
Mar 29 10:01:39 office org.kde.kpasswdserver[2124]: org.kde.kio.kpasswdserver: User = "anonymous" , WindowId = 0
Mar 29 10:01:39 office org.kde.kpasswdserver[2124]: org.kde.kio.kpasswdserver: User = "anonymous" , WindowId = 69206021
Mar 29 10:01:49 office org.kde.kpasswdserver[2124]: org.kde.kio.kpasswdserver: User = "stuart" , WindowId = 0[/FONT]

and this is what shows when I click on the Windows 7 machine under Network > Samba Shares > Workgroup > <MACHINE_NAME>

[FONT=monospace][COLOR=#000000]Mar 29 10:05:09 office org.kde.kpasswdserver[2124]: message repeated 16 times: [ org.kde.kio.kpasswdserver: User = "stuart" , WindowId = 0][/COLOR]
Mar 29 10:05:15 office org.kde.kpasswdserver[2124]: org.kde.kio.kpasswdserver: User = "stuart" , WindowId = 69206021
Mar 29 10:05:15 office org.kde.kpasswdserver[2124]: org.kde.kio.kpasswdserver: User = "stuart" , WindowId = 0
Mar 29 10:05:17 office org.kde.kpasswdserver[2124]: org.kde.kio.kpasswdserver: User = "anonymous" , WindowId = 69206021
Mar 29 10:05:17 office org.kde.kpasswdserver[2124]: org.kde.kio.kpasswdserver: User = "anonymous" , WindowId = 0[/FONT]

So the number must be meaningful (to someone... I hope)

My desire would be that Dolphin would prompt me for the username and password via the Network icon path. It seems to be giving my Linux username and/or anonymous instead of prompting me.

[vinnywright]

I just did this ,,,,,, and it worked just fine , got the password prompt after clicking the PC's name , enterd the user and password and got the top level of shaired folers .

I did half to wait about 5 min for the windows box to be accessible after starting it however.

I have NOT tried saving a location in dolphins places and then re-trying the procedure .

Neon-/dev/stabel repo added to Kubuntu 16.04.

KDE-5.33.0

VINNY

[MoonRise]

Not necessarily your issue here but may help and has on most issues I have similar to yours. A lot has to do with how M$ changed the paradigm on file shares and access for their OS.

https://tommynation.com/enable-remot...es-windows-10/

[oshunluvr]

Yeah, see the problem here is: Dolphin is NOT prompting me for username/password even though Windows isn't blocking access at all. I really don't want Windows to allow anonymous access, I jut want Dolphin to ask for credentials.

So I'm not seeing what Vinny is, and I can log onto the Windows machine if I use smb://<WINDOWS IP> but I want Dolphin to work correctly instead.

[MoonRise]

I wonder why it isn't prompting? I just checked here with a few Windows systems at work and I was prompted for UN/PW. Got me curious now. If I find anything I'll let you know.

That is with the machine name and not IP too.