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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: gvfs (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Invalid

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Title:
  Nautilus does not remember passwords to SMB shares in MS-Windows
  domain

Status in GVFS:
  New
Status in gvfs package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: nautilus

  When opening an SMB share (using the URL smb://user@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

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