Matching Samba login on macOS Finder in Tahoe

Hi ​@matehal, thanks for posting!

I’d like to have our support team take a closer look at this. Could you email in to support@1password.com with the screenshot you’ve mentioned, as well as a link to this thread, and your forum username?

You’ll receive a reply with a Support ID number. You can share that here to help us connect the dots. Thanks!

Since we didn't hear back from the original poster, I did take the suggestion of 1p_jem and submitted a support email to the OnePassword support team.

Following is a detailed outline of everything I investigated with my partner Nova, who happens to be a ChatGPT agent. Hopefully, this was enough to trigger a lot of keywords and identifiers so that somebody else asking the same question can hopefully get some answers.

I will come back to this post and update you all on what OnePassword says about this feature, or rather, missing feature. 

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Hello 1Password Support,

I’m trying to use 1Password to sign in to an SMB network share from Finder on my Mac. When macOS presents the network share authentication dialog, I can invoke 1Password and select the correct item, but it doesn’t fill the username and password into the dialog. I’d like 1Password to remain the single source for these credentials. Saving a second copy in Apple Keychain could leave the two copies out of sync when the password changes. Here’s what I’ve observed and explored. In 1Password settings, macOS Autofill and filling suggestions are already enabled. The SMB dialog offers Registered User and has fields labeled Name and Password. My 1Password item has its normal username and password fields, and Finder appears under Linked Apps. As an experiment, I added custom fields labeled Name and Password to match the dialog. I also added an Account field after inspecting Keychain. I haven’t established that those labels make a difference. I temporarily saved the credential in Keychain to inspect its metadata. Keychain describes it as a network password and labels the username attribute Account. Its Access Control list includes the network authentication agent, the network authentication system agent, and NetAuth. I understand those entries describe access to the Keychain item; they don’t necessarily identify the dialog’s fields or prove which process owns it. I also found an older community discussion about an AFP sign-in dialog. A user reported that focus could shift away from the network authentication agent and suggested invoking 1Password immediately after the dialog appears, before clicking another window. I’m interested in whether that applies to current macOS SMB dialogs. Could you help me understand: first, is filling the macOS SMB network share authentication dialog supported by Universal Autofill or macOS Autofill? Second, which application or system component does 1Password need to recognize for that dialog? Is the existing Finder link sufficient, or can the network authentication component be linked? Third, do custom field labels affect filling in native macOS dialogs, or is there another field mapping or item type I should use? And fourth, is there a recommended way to make 1Password recognize the SMB server and fill the credentials without storing another copy in Keychain? If this isn’t currently supported, I’d appreciate it being considered as a feature request. Reliable support for network share prompts, or a way to associate a 1Password item with the relevant system authentication dialog, would make 1Password much more useful as a single credential source across Macs. I’m using a Mac on a current version of macOS. I can provide exact macOS and 1Password versions, screenshots, and a diagnostic report if useful. 

Thank you, Michael.