macOS Sierra always prompts for credentials for network drives

Just to complete this solution:

If you want to mount several shares of one server maybe you have to do this workaround:

1. Open your keychain app and delete the "key" of your server.

Only for background-information: I'm quite sure if you watch the key-preferences (double-click) at the point "location" there is this *one* share at the end. like: smb://servername._smb._tcp.local/sharename

2. Go to Finder, open a window and click your server on the left (NOT the share!!!) and then click "connect as..." in the window and login with your information. So a key should be key within keychain should be generated which is only smb://servername._smb._tcp.local/ (without the sharename... please check within the keychain app)

3. Now all shares in the dock will be automounted

By the way: it is not enough just to delete the sharename out of the key! You have to generate a new key.

It didn't seem to work for me. The globe icon shows up on the doc but when I click on it it still wants to authenticate. I have 10.12.1 for reference. I'm also connecting to a Mac with Server app (latest for El Capitan).

I deleted all the keys out of keychain first that had to do with the server (SMB).

Ok, this "workaround" only works for automount at start/restart. If the Mac is turned on already and the server (or the shares) aren't mounted it won't work without authentification.

Anyway... i already heard now of some people having this same behavior as you even with automount at startup (only globe and no automount). And for others (like me) it's working perfect. Maybe it depends on the server settings and kind of connection. I don't know. Sorry... The only thing you can try if you want is to delete the key again and generate a new one WITH the share.

just a reminder to new posters:

this thread had been erroneously marked as solved.

please continue the conversation over here:

Re: macOS Sierra always prompts for credentials for network drives

Hi Peter, thank you for your very comprehensive reply, I really appreciate it.

As nothing has changed on my NAS but this issue appears on all of my Macs (3) and others are reporting the same problem I'm going to sit it out for a while and see if Apple (assuming they aren't too busy ripping off people with the new (yet old) MacBooks) get their collective finger out of their butts and sort out the bug. Again, thanks for your help.

I have the same issue - so annoying. Apple please fix it - you just broke it. And yes, I have rebooted. And cannot change the servers I connect to to use an apple proprietary protocol.

The "solved" answer above does not work.

I have the same issue after Sierra upgrade. I'm using `mount_afs` command with direct user credentials providing to avoid authentication dialogue confirmation until a better solution been found.

I am running into the ghost mount "-1" issue as well. I thought it was my programming until I wrote an applescript that ONLY did the one mount cleanly and got the same thing. Amazing. This is a TOP PRIORITY bug for me.

Guess what?

It's all fixed in 10.12.2

Whether this is a "feature" or not in 10.12 & 10.12.1 I don't know, but you can now autologin to your server shares with the latest version of Mac OS. I'm guessing there were enough complaints about this to bring it back.

Just upgraded to 10.12.2 and this seems to be fixed - all my cifs:// mounts went though at startup without a prompt

I have a similar problem but it is between Sierra and Windows 10. Worked fine under El Captain.

How can this be marked as solved?

Boom! Fixed with 10.12.2 and the terminal command! Thank you for listening Apple! You have again given me faith in the company!

That's afp. Is it safe to say that I can swap the afp in the script with smb and it would work for smb?

I have the same problem and I've only been using AFP all the way.