- Workgroup/Domain
- Username
- Password
And if I could find a way to havethe user name automatically change for me that'd be even better!
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I don't know how I didn't realize this earlier, this might be pretty obvious to everyone ... but when browsing the network on 10.3, (possibly works for all versions of MacOS X) entering a workgroup, then opening a windows share I get a dialogue to authenticate my SMB connection asking for:
And if I could find a way to havethe user name automatically change for me that'd be even better!
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SMB Authentication and username shortcut
I have a hard time following exactly what this hint is trying to say. An SMB workgroup listing contains the names of its hosts, not its users. The host name has very little to do with the valid usernames on a given machine. I'm not quite sure what correlation this tip is trying to convey.
SMB Authentication and username shortcut
Yeah ... I have no idea what this guy is talking about. Usernames and NetBIOS names are completely different entities. OS X just fills in the local login name when one isn't specified.
SMB Authentication and username shortcut
My guess as to what he meant, is that for (Windows) servers which you can log into (i.e. whose shares you can mount) without having to supply a password but only a valid username, you can use the NETBIOS name as a valid username, so you don't have to know or look up somewhere a valid username.
SMB Authentication and username shortcut
This "hint" could disappear and I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. This guy makes NO sense whatsoever, and if he's saying what I guess he's saying, it's an obvious feature.
SMB Authentication and username shortcut
Are there hints you do lose sleep over? ;)
SMB Authentication and username shortcut
Mac OS X already makes it pretty easy to re-connect automatically to SMB shares you've mounted in the past.
JS link (favelet, bookmarlet, etc.)
Drag this to your toolbar, and replace the appropriate items:
smb://domain;smb_username@host/share For more, go to http://www.bookmarklets.com/ (and don't forget the links page: http://www.bookmarklets.com/about/links.html)... ---
SMB Authentication and username shortcut
I only have to log with the user name and password once. After that I make an alias of the share and ever after just double-click on the alias. No more logging in, instead I get immediate gratification when it pops open a Finder window inside the share.
One small problem with aliases
There is just one small problem with aliases to servers, at least in my experience. When you disconnect from a network with shares being mounted (after that your computer will nicely ask whether you would like to disconnect from the servers/shares, since the connection was lost), the aliases to these shares stop working. If you delete them and make new ones, the new ones wont work either. Aliases to other shares on the same server will keep working. |
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