Password prompt while connecting to network share

No, its not expired. I can use my existing password and connect to it. Its just pain to write username and password every time you restart and moreover when you can have the facility to connect it automatically.

I use 10.5

Thanks,
smary

try looking at this: http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=29989

I looked at the link you mentioned above and renamed the keychain file, but I'm still having the same problem.

For auto mount, you can try here :

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070202190047133

It uses startup items.  This works well for us, but we are using Active Directory integrated login so the credentials to mount SMB share with is the same as those used to log into the Mac.

http://www.bombich.com/mactips/activedir.html

You can see these links and some others including a reference to MarcoPolo which is apparently a free utility that does this, but the two I pulled out mimic what I am doing with my networked Macs.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Apple/Networking/Q_22913503.html


On the keychain issue.  If corrupted keychain was the problem and it was potentially passing old credentials, you may want to have your Windows (Active Directory) Administrator check that your account didn't lock out because of the incorrect attempts to login.  

If the keychain was not the issue, you may want to check (again with your administrator unless that is you) that your AD account has not expired.  I am vaguely remembering possibly setting Mac accounts to not expire, but that may have been very old versions and not OS X.

IIRC, you will see this behavior if the password expired as it won't give you the prompt to change after the fact.  Same on Windows.  If you don't change before expires, it just stops working - doesn't default to a change at next login recognizing your old password is valid.  


Regards,

Kevin

I checked the AD account for the user and it is fine. The account is not locked out and the account never expires.

The user can give his credentials and log in, so I guess there was nothing wrong the AD account, but I still verified it. The problem is, even if the user clicks the option to save the password in keychain, it does not gets saved. Infact everytime it brings some other usename and password.
So I thought renaming the keychain file will create all data again, but thats not happening.

Any thoughts on why this is happening ?


Thanks again


Regards,
Smary

I forgot to mention that I have seen the Mac and Windows workstations for that matter log in with cached credentials; therefore, that is why I wanted you to check with Active Directory.

So, we know :
+AD account is active and current password is valid.
+You have a clean KeyChain by removing old and starting fresh.
+You successfully connect to the share and indicate to save credentials in keychain, but after a reboot you are prompted again.
 ++Although sounds like still picking up the old information.  


You can try Keychain First Aid tool and also logging in as root user and doing rename / fix and see if that takes effect.

I'll try the Keychain First Aid tool and let you know how did it go. I'll have to try that on coming Tuesday...

Thanks

I tries Keychain First aid tool, but that didnt fix the problem.
One thing I've noticed is though is, I get that error while connecting
on specific server on my network. When I connect to all other servers
it saves the new credentials in the keychain but when I connect to one
specific server, it never saves new credentials.

Anything special about that server?  For example, are the others domain controllers and that one is not or vice versa.  Are some Mac servers and some Windows or other OS?  Anything even if it seems obscure shouldn't be noted, then you can look at all the differences and see if anything sticks out.

The other server is a DC, but this one isn't. This one is a web and FTP server. Other than that, I dont see much difference.
But on other Mac's, I've never had such a problem. I'm having problem on this Mac tower only.

I'll try that as soon as I get access to that Mac, but do you think that will work ?

The problem is not that I can't log in to the server. I can log in to the server. But the problem
is it never saves my username and password. Everytime I click on it, it asks for my username and password, and it has a different users username information on the window.