The problem of having to make four SMB connections to get to a password prompt, instead of two, is a matter of deep dbus magic, from what I can tell; the first run through, a dbus ID is missing that's needed in order to spawn the dialog, so the connection fails until the second time when this dbus ID is provided.
No luck figuring out why bookmarking of shares and servers behaves so differently.
The problem of having to make four SMB connections to get to a password prompt, instead of two, is a matter of deep dbus magic, from what I can tell; the first run through, a dbus ID is missing that's needed in order to spawn the dialog, so the connection fails until the second time when this dbus ID is provided.
No luck figuring out why bookmarking of shares and servers behaves so differently.