It’s always this time of year when I say I’ll definitely blog more next year. I was also sure I’d blog tons during lockdown but I was busy doing other things.
This is the type of post I used to do very regularly on this blog so I thought I’d ease myself back in with a simple one.
If you access Samba/SMB shares on your home network via the stock PCManFM file manager on your Raspberry Pi, you’ll probably have hit the problem that it forgets the password on reboot, even tho you ticked “remember forever”.
It’s a surprisingly difficult fix to find via Google but is easy to do.
- First install gnome-keyring which remembers your SMB passwords with
sudo apt install gnome-keyring - Then install seahorse which is a simple gnome-keyring GUI with
sudo apt install seahorse - Run seahorse by typing
seahorsein a terminal and using instructions from here, do the following:- Select View > By Keyring
- If there is no keyring in the left column (it will be marked with a lock icon), go to File > New > Password Keyring and give it a name.
- You will be asked to enter a password. If you do not give the keyring a password, your SMB passwords will not be stored securely.
- Finally, right-click on the keyring you just created and select “Set as default”.
Now access an SMB share in the file manager, enter the password and tick “remember forever”. After a reboot, go to the share again and you’ll get straight in without being prompted for the SMB password.