Sounds like a KDE thing where it doesn't remember your credentials/doesn't want to automatically provide them to the connector. You could take over the fs mounting and do it via systems or some other means if there's no way for KDE to do it.
Would you be able to explain in a little bit more detail? I'm not too familiar with Linux yet to know my way around these things so easily hehe.. Thanks!
Dolphin is your file explorer program. That's part of the KDE desktop app collection. It allows you to connect to a samba share. In the background it mounts the samba share to a your local filesystem. The mount point is a location, it looks like a folder but it's actually a view into the samba share. This mounting is done by the kernel using a filesystem driver which talks to the samba server. In order for the driver to do this, it needs your samba credentials. Dolphin presents some UI for you to input them and it passes them to the driver. If it asks for them every time, it means that it doesn't remember them, or if it depends on something else to remember them, it's not working. There might be a way in KDE to tell it to remember the credentials. I'm not a KDE user or expert.
If you can't do that, you could do what Dolphin does by yourself. You could tell the driver the same information Dolphin does but you can also store the credentials in a file and have it read those from there. This can be done in multiple ways. Via fstab, systemd, command line, and possibly many more.
I greatly appreciate your response, I'll play around with what you've mentioned tmr when I'm back on the laptop. I'm sure I'll sort this out based on the info u gave me, thanks 🌻
Try to get Dolphin/KDE to remember the credentials. I know GNOME can do it so I assume it's possible in KDE.
Try checking out KWallet settings. It's the app in charge of saving passwords in KDE.
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