Version: 1.4 (using KDE 4.4.1) Compiler: 4.4.1 OS: Linux Installed from: Ubuntu Packages When you supply an smb url to dolphin, an authentication window pops up. Enter username and password, click "ok", and it does not authenticate; the authentication window just keeps popping back up. It is impossible to access smb shares with the current 4.4.1 version of dolphin. It used to work in KDE 3.5. Running Kubuntu 9.10, KDE 4.4.1 (ppa), Dolphin 1.4, AMD X86_64.
Konqueror 4.4.1 exhibits the same behavior, BTW.
I can confirm this issue in KDE 4.5.1 (using Arch Linux). However, you can work around the issue by making sure the SMB URI contains the username: i.e. "smb://user@server/sharename" works, but "smb://server/sharename" DOES NOT work (even if you correctly enter the username in the dialog box). In remote:/ you can fix your URIs to include the username you want to connect as and things should work. Annoying, though.
I can confirm this issue using KDE 4.5.1 (Kubuntu 10.10). Even if I enter the password in the authentication window no connection will be established. The smb server message is: smbd/password.c:authorise_login(865) authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody Via "create new link to address" and entering the address like mentioned from John Koelndorfer a dolphin error message appears like "writing not possible". Very annoying!
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 209431 ***