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Sierra password re-prompt for network home

  • January 6, 2017
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Currently our machines are bound to Active Directory and we derive the Network Home folder from AD.

In Sierra when a user logs into a machine they have never logged into before the dock displays a globe called "User's Network Home". When I click the globe it opens up the share on the file server and does not prompt for a password.

If I log out and log back in as that same user on the same computer and click the globe it prompts me for a password.

Why is it that the first time it does not prompt me and the second time it does? I would like it to never prompt for the password and am curious why it's doing this.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,

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    • Chuey
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    • January 6, 2017

    Also to note. . . this wasn't the case on El Capitan and is a new issue in Sierra :(

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    • January 8, 2017

    @Chuey I think this might help

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    • Chuey
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    • January 10, 2017

    @bentoms Thanks for that. I've tested this but do not think it is fixing what I'm seeing.

    Right now if I log into a computer my network home mounts and I can browse to it without entering my password. If I log out and immediately back in it will prompt me for a password.

    If I reboot and log in wth the same user it does not prompt me for the password?

    Not sure what it's clinging on to forcing me to reboot before I can log in again without entering the users password to connect to the network home folder. . . strange

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