I have tried to solve this myself, have looked at Apple forums, honest.

It seems a long time ago I installed 2 more Macs here but it's probably only weeks. At that time I got into a muddle with Accounts but this was solved at a stroke with a tip from a Mod here (the tip was to create accounts on every computer which are identical = instant networking around the office).

However, a vestige of my muddle remains, viz:

On this computer, called W........, when I network to one other named D........, this one automatically puts in to the Connect to Server dialogue box, a username which I have deleted, at both ends.

The only way round it is to overtype it with the account name which exists at both ends.

How to get rid of an old dead deleted username which automatically hogs the Connect to Server dialogue box but is overtypeable?

I've checked Deleted Users at both ends, and deleted all deleted users......... It's not a big deal, just a tad irritating.

I hope I've said enough. I'd supply a screen-shot but this forum doesn't host images.

Thanks

I assume you've tried simply deleting the pre-entered, defunct address? For me in OS X 10.5, that's all it takes to make the Server Address field blank on subsequent invocations of the Connect to Server dialog.

Sorry DK, don't understand.

I have to delete the pre-entered name to type in the name which works. Just deleting the defunct name leaves a blank, which of course, won't connect.

10.4 Tiger here fwiw.

Another possible solution is to use Keychain Access on computer W……. and delete the incorrect keychain entry/entries for D…….

> I'd supply a screen-shot but this forum doesn't host images.

You can upload a screenshot to one of the free hosting sites and link to it here.

(I use Free Image Hosting.)

Hmm...so you can't delete the pre-entered name, then simply dismiss the dialogue, then invoke it again?

not sure if I am understanding correctly, but if you have connected to a server using a login and password, that will be in the keychain. Next time you try the connection, you won't be asked for l/p if the one in the keychain still works.

The two ways around this are (1) remove the entry from the keychain, and (2) specify login and password in the connect dialog.

The syntax for (2) varies depending on what you are connecting to.
Here's one I have in my connect list:

smb://graphics;jason:Art123@10.0.0.100/Art

Connects to the "Art" SMB share (workgroup "graphics") on 10.0.0.100, using login "jason" and password "Art123". In that case the workgroup can be omitted, and so also can the password and the share point name, but this supplies everything. In this way no entry is made into the keychain either.

Well Done That Man!

Or, as they say in (parts of) England, "Swipe me!"

I have never looked at the Keychain utility before. I had no need to. Thanks to you, I fired it up and there were two redundant accounts - at the top of the list - which I deleted, cheerfully.

There was another one which bothered me for a while but eventually I deleted that one too.

Now, when I click on Network, then D........, up comes the identity with which I want to log on there, default, in the Network dialogue box. Hooray!

*Mark this thread sorted/fixed, and with so many thanks once again to the helpful people here.

*Memo to the last helpful Admin who responded last time I made this positive remark, saying something like "we don't do that here just so's ya know": there is another forum I visit very occasionally on finance, where people can thank each other for helpful posts, by clicking on a button, thus registering thanks to a Helpful Poster....shame we don't have this here. Just a thought.