I currently have 2 shares from 2 servers mounted from within dolphin. Dolphin already has the username and password for both and can connect normally but one of the two if I click it 2-3 times will prompt me for a username and password while already knowing it.
I just have to click ok and it will keep going. Its like there is a 30% chance in each click I do on that one share to ask for a username and password.
Let me be clear that it will ask me for a password ONLY if I click here
I don’t have a fix but I did figure out a workaround.
In my case I have a few directories on an external drive connected to a router. They have been added as Places in Dolphin for a few years with no issues until recently. I re-added them as Places and deleted the old entries. It now works as expected.
I think my problem is based on the communication with the smb server not a general external drive. my installation is fresh. Those are new connections.
We are now in Plasma 6.6.1 and this is still a constant problem.
Is there some kind of refactor for KIO to fix that problem.
I now have cred popups without even needing to click on the folder.
This is crazy really.
Fyi making the mount with mount.cifs produces zero problems so thats an obvious problem of Plasma.
Ofc for apps that dont interact directly with KIO those mounts are unusable too so the connection should be done at a lower level anyway that all DEs share as an option.
I had this issue and just resolved it for my case.
I had the NAS pinned in places, I first removed it from that.
Then I opened kwalletmanager went to Passwords > Maps > {nasname} I found that in the wallet there were the “login” and “password” entries, but also copies of the them (with a number added to the end). Enabling “show values” I saw that the “password” entry had the wrong password in it. I removed the duplicates, and fixed the password. I restarted dolphin, connected to the NAS and it worked just fine.
Seems to be that entering the password in the prompt before was just updating the duplicates, rather than the correct originals. I’m not familiar with kwallet or dolphin, but I would suspect this is a dolphin bug, where it is not updating the keys correctly. If you don’t restart dolphin before reconnecting to the NAS, those duplicate entries can get regenerated.
