macOS Sierra always prompts for credentials for network drives

This never was by design, nor a feature - no matter what anyone says. It was, and is a bug. But...its been fixed in 10.12.2 beta 2 I've just this minute installed. About time! Thank God(C) for that!!!

good news .... now i will wait for that beta to turn to the official release channel then i will upgrade to sierra from my current el capitan setup

thanks for reporting that

have you updated to beta 3 ? wondering how your progress is going with that, if the problem resurfaced or was fixed final on beta 2 ?

Yep still fixed in B3.

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to Bama350z:

i saw a notification email of your post on this thread, for some reason it was removed. i suspect probably not by you.

it seems that if comments are made comparing apple products to microsoft products in a manner that shows the apple product is inferior or problematic - that it would get removed on this forum.

that's a sad state of this time, where this type of censorship is allowed here. i've not seen it done elsewhere like this.

regardless, the topic you brought up i generally agree with - for the reasons you mentioned as well as many others - apple will never claim any larger percentage of user base, especially in the enterprise.

from lacking file system functionality to numerous holes/bugs in OS X and MacOS in general - i found the only thing that's pleasing using macOS or OS X is the visuals and smoothness of the UI.

kind of tells you something that functionality and performance are in the trash can vs. what Apple feels their products need to be.

its likely not censorship... we don't need rants that have no relation to the topic. if apple wanted to compete for the bottom they could get a larger user base. id take a MacBook that doesn't boot over a windows device anyday, and I too used to be lost in Microsoft ****.

looking on wikipedia's sierra page, it looks like the latest official release is now 10.12.2.

can someone who's downloaded it, please confirm the re-authentication issue is finally fixed in this official release ?

Looks good so far, I just did the 10.12.2 update and network volumes are mounting without the authentication dialog.

I've been using AutoMounter since upgrading to Sierra and although it works, its doesn't create mounts inside /Volumes, so its useless for anything terminal related that might be using the /Volumes/XXXX.

Since upgrading to 10.12.2 I've now switched back to Drive Mounter and everything seems to be working fine. However I'm now noticing loads of entries in my /Volumes folder for the same share, so I have stuff like

Storage, Storage-1, Storage-2..... etc. The longer the machine is running the more it creates.

Is anyone else seeing this behaviour ??

I updated to 10.12.2 on two Macs as well and network drives now automount. I didn't even have to re-save the passwords in Keychain. Odd that Apple never acknowledged the bug nor did they call it out on the "fixes" bullets.

I guess that if this bug is indeed fixed, this thread can be marked solved.

good thing you mentioned automounter:

for the longest time I have used drivemounter with el capitan and it worked fine. always seem to notice sluggish mounting during a startup. but once mounted, after several sleep/wake cycles my shares are still connected.

I also plunged into automounter (only just recently bought it). I noticed this mounts my shares faster upon startup in el capitan. however you are raising this issue which makes me wonder what's the difference between these 2 apps in terms of what they are doing and how they mount the shares ?

with both apps I found that afp connection is much more stable and reliable than smb, which I tried and they did not work well with either drive mounter or automounter. I did not give much attention to the other connection types like nfs. wondering if I should try that.

wondering if I should bother with using these automounting tools at all if I upgrade to sierra ? if I upgrade to sierra and then mount the shares first time, then add them to the login items list - does that "hide" check box actually hide the finder window that typically shows up when you first startup and the share is initially mounted ? in the past I found that did not work.

just curious, if i decide to upgrade to sierra from the app store download .... is the version going to be the latest 10.12.2 build or an earlier release ?

The App Store always gives you the latest build, so once Apple officials releases a build update, that is the version available on the App Store. I upgraded one machine yesterday and the App Store installed 10.12.2. You will get the full (combo) update if you don't already have Sierra installed or if you download from the App Store from the Purchased tab. If you see a Sierra update under the Updates tab it will be a delta update. Hope this helps.