How to have "Connect to Server" autofill password?

[dinkyrdj]

Hello. I use Finder's "Connect to Server" to connect to shared folders on my local network. I have multiple shares I regularly connect to and they are saved to my favorites list. When I try to connect to them, the username field autofills but not the password. I have saved the password to my keychain by checking the box on the credentials window.

Is there a way to have the username AND password fields autofill? I thought that was the point of saving the password to my keychain but it doesn't seem to work. Any suggestion would be appreciated!

 

[barbu]

Try removing one of them from the keychain and then connect to that shaver and tell it save the credentials. Any difference ?

 

[dinkyrdj]

@barbu Thanks for the suggestion. I tried your suggestion but it didn't make a difference.

After some more thought, I have a theory why it's not working. I connect to the same server with different user names. When I connect, I use the following format: smb://username:*@192.123.4.56/folder1.

I suspect it is the username:* part that is forcing me to enter a password. Again, I do this because I'm logging into the same server with different usernames and passwords. I suspect if I wasn't using multiple accounts that I wouldn't have this problem.

 

[LuisN]

@barbu Thanks for the suggestion. I tried your suggestion but it didn't make a difference.

After some more thought, I have a theory why it's not working. I connect to the same server with different user names. When I connect, I use the following format: smb://username:*@192.123.4.56/folder1.

I suspect it is the username:* part that is forcing me to enter a password. Again, I do this because I'm logging into the same server with different usernames and passwords. I suspect if I wasn't using multiple accounts that I wouldn't have this problem.

should be "username: password@ipaddress" if you use "*" it will ask for password. sorry for the space between : and password. It keeps replacing those two by if I don't use a space. I really hate emoji

 

[dinkyrdj]

@LuisN Thanks for the information! Very helpful.

 

[MacUser2525]

@barbu Thanks for the suggestion. I tried your suggestion but it didn't make a difference.

After some more thought, I have a theory why it's not working. I connect to the same server with different user names. When I connect, I use the following format: smb://username:*@192.123.4.56/folder1.

I suspect it is the username:* part that is forcing me to enter a password. Again, I do this because I'm logging into the same server with different usernames and passwords. I suspect if I wasn't using multiple accounts that I wouldn't have this problem.

I am surprised it will work for you at all. I have tried logging into a shared system with another username different on the server than the username on my system and all I get for that connection is macOS telling me I have no permission to do anything. No matter what is put in the connection field it always uses the current username on my machine for the connection. rsync of the files on the command line has no such problem and if use a passwordless ssh id pub file contents that is in the authorized_keys file on the machine to transfer too you do not even need a password to do your transfers.