iMac connecting to a network drive

are these credentials generic or individual to the user of the computer? & how many people need access to the drive?

You can use applescript and export it as a run-only application , save it somewhere on the machine in hidden from the end user, create a plist in launchagents that kicks it off or place the app itself in the log in items.

generic applescript is as follows

tell application
try
mount volume "afp://username:password@server.institution.com"
on error
return
end try
end tell

@Mk_9090

We ran into the same issue. I used the following one liner that runs once per computer to take care of this problem.

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.NetworkAuthorization AllowUnknownServers -bool YES

I have tried to find a configuration profile method, but this works just fine.

Jared