SUMMARY Unable to access windows share when the local windows user you're trying to authenticate as has no password. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Create network share on windows pc. 2. Set the permissions so 1 local user without a password can access it. 3. Try to connect to it via knetattach/KDE Network Wizard 3. When you press "OK" in the authentication dialog will just keep re-appearing with no share being attached. OBSERVED RESULT Authentication dialog will just keep re-appearing with no share being attached. EXPECTED RESULT Expected the share to be attached and I expected to see it and be able to read and write to it. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: Windows 10 LTSC version 1809 macOS: N/A Linux/KDE Plasma: Arch Linux Kernel: 5.6.3-zen (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.69.0 Qt Version: 5.14.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Not quite sure what the "KDE Plasma" part of "Linux/KDE Plasma" line above meant. Also if my bug report is unclear as-is I'll gladly make a video of it.
It's a Samba bug. :( See Bug 398079 and https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14326 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 398079 ***
(CCing Harald in case I've mis-triaged this as he's the expert on Samba stuff these days)
Could be that bug, could just as likely be server misconfiguration though. There is a mountain of authentication related settings in gpedit.msc and, I guess, secpol.msc too. Windows does rather dislike empty passwords for remote authentication, for obvious reasons.