macOS Sierra always prompts for credentials for network drives

Issue is still present for me.

15" 2.9 GHz MacBook Pro / Touchbar

macOS Sierra 10.12.2

Are trying to auto mount upon startup or does this behavior persist with 10.12.2 when your try to manually mount a network drive where the password is already stored in Keychain? I misspoke in my previous post when I said "auto mount"; I meant manually mounting a disk.

I have a RAID drive connected to a Time Capsule on my home network and I routinely access it to store/retrieve files. With 10.12 and 10.12.1, I had the issue described in this thread. After upgrading to 10.12.2, the usual behavior found on all previous releases of OS X (i.e., click on the disk in Finder sidebar and it would mount without entering a password, assuming you stored it in Keychain the first time you tried to mount the disk) returned. This is true with both my 2012 Mac mini server and 2015 MBPr.

If this is not the case for you, perhaps Keychain is corrupted and you could try clearing the related passwords and starting over. If you're auto mounting a drive, I'm not sure what to say since I am not configured that way. Perhaps another poster can offer advice.

it seems that there are some instances of persistent issues with this even after updating to 10.12.2.

i still have not upgraded from el capitan, and i'm not sure i will if there is a chance this issue will resurface with my installation.

would rather not deal with it again and then restoring from a disk image to get back to el capitan for a second time.

Fixed!

Definitely not a bug, as per the item below. But, for crying out loud(!), their thinking is inconsistent because you can still mount your shares from a Finder window and NOT have to enter credentials. Whatever. The following works.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207112

thats interesting, because i thought some ppl have said this is actually a bug rather than a feature.

what would executing this command do in terms of NAS security on a home network ? can malicious code gain access to the NAS ?

The 10.12.2 update fixed this completely for me. I use an Applescript to log in to my file server and previously it was asking for the password no matter what. Now the script is magically working perfectly again without asking for the password.

Well, that's an interesting support document. The Apple support link I included in an earlier post didn't give this information but it wasn't directed at administrators.

In any case, Apple makes it sound like the default case is for the security feature to be active but that is not what I saw when I upgraded my two Macs. In fact, just the opposite. And I never ran the Terminal command given in the link. I could connect as always once the password had been saved.

A well thought out extended post of mine was deleted by the Apple team and thanks for those that responded to me personally after reading it. I won't take the time to do that again but just to update my situation, mine now logs in correctly but it still opens every share I have set to run at login and I do have the hide box checked. I'm not a super experienced Mac user so maybe I am missing something.

i directed a response towards your previous deleted post and it was responded to by someone else ....

anyway .....

i observe the same behavior as you when i do not use 3rd party apps to auto mount my shares.

either it is a bug or intended to work that way. i think its a bug because the hide switch is not hiding the finder windows of the shares.