None of this are related new things in the beta. so moving topic
Thanks for the quick reply and moving to the proper section.
That is a settings. Explorer Panel settings. Look at "save on exit" section, there is a option if network devices should be rememberd
Turns out that the option works the other way around. By default it is set to "remember only path to local harddrive". I turned that off now.
Windows Network stuff are a mess.. MC have very little contorol. there 3 methods and you can switch between them
I get that and found a working setting after trying out all three of them. But it is noteworthy that other file-managers manage to display Windows network devices using default settings (usually not configurable anyway). And compared to MC they display and work with *all* my network devices, not just the SMB share.
Personally I don't need this often (if at all), because I can either use mapped drives or enter the IP directly. But it may be something to look into again?
The focus at startup works for me.. Maybe fails becuase of issue 1..
I tried with local and with network devices, different folders and same folders, exiting MC with the left or the right panel in focus. MC always defaults to the right panel when I open it using the "Auto" option. I don't know what "Auto" bases its decision on, though. For the time being I will use "Left", because I am more used to defaulting to the left panel.