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How do you automount a users network folder using login credentials for active directory in Leopard?

Asked by: CCUITAdmin

I have some macs running leopard in some of our classrooms. These have been successfully connected to active directory. On the windows machine a script was written to automount every users personal drive and a department drive upon login. Both of these are just smb shared drives on one of our servers. I want to do the same thing with the macs. When a user logs on I want it to automount their department drives and personal drives automatically using the credentials they used to log on with to determine what shared drives to mount as well as authenticating those drives. Any ideas on how I should go about doing this. I tried applescript for a while and got fed up with that but would be willing to give it another shot if someone has an idea on how to get it to work. Thanks.

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2009-03-05 at 12:11:40ID24203193
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by: micalkinPosted on 2009-03-05 at 13:54:09ID: 23811292

Try looking at the links in this thread and see if it's close to what you are trying to do.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Apple/Programming/AppleScript/Q_23596087.html?sfQueryTermInfo=1+10+automount+macintosh+share+smb

 

by: CCUITAdminPosted on 2009-03-20 at 07:39:20ID: 23939685

This seems like it may work. I would need to make a few changes to the script. First of all the part about year level is irrelevant to me. So I deleted some things first that dealt with the year level. Then I preceded to enter in our server information so that Finder would have the full address of the shared folders. But when I enter in the full path I get the error "Expected " but found unknown token." I have attached the script code after I edited what was on that forum. Could you please take a look through it and see what is wrong. I'm assuming that it's the way I typed out the path, but I'm ignorant as to which formatting I should use when typing it. Thanks.

property user_name : ""
if user_name is "" then
	set Dialog_1 to display dialog "Please enter your user name" default answer "username"
	set the user_name to the text returned of Dialog_1
end if
property pass_word : ""
if pass_word is "" then
	set Dialog_2 to display dialog "Please enter your password" default answer "" with hidden answer
	set pass_word to the text returned of Dialog_2
end if
 
tell application "Finder"
	try
		mount volume "smb://eden.cincybible.priv\shares\users\" & user_name & ":" & pass_word & "@apc-fs1/" & ""
	end try
end tell
 
tell application "Finder"
	try
		mount volume "smb://" & username & ":" & password & "@apc-fs1/" & ""
	end try
end tell

                                              
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by: CCUITAdminPosted on 2009-03-20 at 07:48:30ID: 23939790

Okay, I played around some more and got it to work I think. My only problem left is that I need to get this to run upon log-in for any person who may log into the computer. Typically on campus we would do this by attaching the script to our Active Directory server and telling it to run it on the client machine on log in. The problem is that I don't think I can attach an applescript to active directory running on Windows Server. So how do I get the macs to run this script every time someone logs on, even if it's their first time logging onto that computer? Thanks.

 

by: CCUITAdminPosted on 2009-09-11 at 20:31:59ID: 31554568

A full solution was never really reached. I came up with a script that works but no one could suggest a way to implement it.

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