SUMMARY Trying to explore smb shares with dolphin (and kio) invariably results in a message that the folder does not exist, unless you had previously set a default user and password from the settings in Settings->Network->Window shares. This is not sensible and represents a regression with respect to previous times when dolphin was asking for a username and password when needed to open smb shares. Even worse, this makes no sense when the URL passed to dolphin *contains* the username. Even even worse, when you have a desktop link for the share and you click on it, if the default username/password is not set in settings for the Window shares, nothing happens and you get zero feedback on what had gone wrong. I have managed finding my way in this issue thanks to https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/tz3ysq/dolphin_cant_resolve_samba_shares/ that documents the problem. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Kubuntu 22.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.7 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.98.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 Kernel Version: 5.15.0-50-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-10510U CPU @ 1.80GHz Memory: 15,3 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics