Mac - Mounting Volumes AppleScript help

After much umming and arhing, and not sure where the problem lies. I've asked this here. If you think it needs to moved, accept my apologies and please move it.

I have very little remaining hair with this problem so please help.

Also I have only been using the Mac for the last couple of days so please please please don't hold this against me especially if I'm being thick.

Scenario :
Windows 2000 Servers set up as a domain. Now the File Services for Mac have been installed so I can get access to the any shares on the File Server from my Mac. Yippee.
Mac has OS 9.2.2 as an operating system.

Now step two : THis is for students, so I need to automate it. Asking the little blighters to map several shares isn't on the cards. So step in some Applescript.

Using Dialog Director, I purloined the script for a username and password (the students details) and mounted using the following.

Mount volume Student_HomeDrive on server File_Server1 as user name Userlogin with password UserPasswd;

This works, great stuff.

Installed Macadministrator as well. Had everything running swimmingly.

Now we finally come to the problem.

Two sites, two files servers. A users area could be on one or the other. Only because of the inter-campus link it is not possible to see the File Server on the other campus.
So the script can no longer work because it can't find the name File_Server1. I can no longer see it in the Chooser. If the Mac is at the same Campus I can.

I can access it manually through using the IP 172.16.1.10.

But now the script doesn't work. So I change the script to the following.

Mount volume "afp://" & LoginUsername & ":" & LoginPassword & "@172.16.1.10/Student_Homedrive"

Network File Permission Error.

I've simpilfied it to :
Mount volume "afp://Testuser:pass@172.16.1.10/Student_Homedrive"

Network File Permission Error.

Remove the password from it :
Mount volume "afp://Testuser@172.16.1.10/Student_Homedrive"

Comes up with the authentication screen, user name in the right place. Enter password works fine, so its not the password and its not a permissiosn problem that I can see.(I've had this verified after two hours to make sure I wasn't going crazy).
And ergo not the scripts.

So I'm stuck i need to map/mount the share/volume with the IP number, through a script and not manually.

So I'm hoping on of you guys can help at least put me on the right track to a solution.Start Free Trial