Saved Passwords for mounting network drives aren't memorised

@elr77: Could you provide us with some more information for us to troubleshoot, what's the method you use to connect to your nas, what protocol, maybe even your NAS's brand. I own a NAS myself and the password is remembered just fine when connecting through samba (windows shares).

Oh if you happen to use samba shares, a quick tip to quickly reconnect to them, add them to your favorites in files by dragging them to the Personal Section ;)

With my current Distro UberStudent, this seems to have resolved. But it remembers afp shares, but not always samba shares, which is just fine.

Uberstudent, Epicurus. The NAS is a Seagate GoFlexHome which I call a NAS, although in reality is is much more than that.
Its freindly to both Windows and Apple even sndroid to some degree. Uberstudent is using Thunar and Thunar it behaves fine.
So i guess that all the latest updates to Debian have actually resolved it all.

I am still having fun getting to my other comuters Windows shares, and vice versa that the other computers getting to my shares.
I havent taken time to bother however, as most things are copied up to the NAS drive, then copied to the computer in use as needed.

Is this when using the "Connect to Server" dialog (which has a single tickbox for save password) or the Gtk dialog which gives three radio buttons - "Do not Remember", "Remember for Session" and "Remember permanently"?

Save password was not working in the "Connect to Server" dialog in some cases. The linked branch addresses this.

3 tick buttons always.

On 02/29/2016 09:55 AM, Jeremy Wootten wrote:
> Is this when using the "Connect to Server" dialog (which has a single
> tickbox for save password) or the Gtk dialog which gives three radio
> buttons - "Do not Remember", "Remember for Session" and "Remember
> permanently"?
>
> Save password was not working in the "Connect to Server" dialog in some
> cases. The linked branch addresses this.
>
> ** Changed in: pantheon-files
> Importance: Wishlist => Low
>
> ** Changed in: pantheon-files
> Milestone: None => loki-beta1
>
> ** Branch linked: lp:~jeremywootten/pantheon-files/fix-1377754-embed-
> connect-server-dialog
>
> ** Changed in: pantheon-files
> Status: Incomplete => In Progress
>
> ** Changed in: pantheon-files
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)
>
> ** Changed in: pantheon-files
> Milestone: loki-beta1 => feature-future
>

It seems to be a Samba issue on this. I am now using Antergos which is ARCH Linux based. However it like all others still has no native Samba access out of box. I always seem to get the familiar Network Timed out.

afp is flawless and works great. I can even mount the NAS share at boot time by adding

gvfs mount afp:// path to share

Into a startup entry and then all my (most) applications are able to allow example playing music, or videos, content directly from my NAS drive. (Happens to be a Seagate Goflex Home).

Arch lacks gadmin-samba which I used on other distros to at least provide ability to even see WORKGROUP shares.
I discovered changing the discovery order moving wins to the left side and lmhosts to the right side.

Even with certain changes you still sometimes have timeout errors with Samba. I dont know if they will ever fix this or not.

I can still say that I have never seen out of box a Linux that remembers forever the passwords for Samba Shares or even sees any windows users out of the box. I know its just not possible for everything to be user friendly.
At least with Antergos it installs using online, downloading and updated as it installs, so it stands a chance of becoming user friendly on your first use..