Map Windows home drive to desktop script example

[alfatec]

Hi, Has anybody got a good example of a script that I can use to map a windows home drive to the mac desktop on login. Using Yosemite workstations bound to active

directory and managed through Yosemite profile manager. Can mount drive to users folders by going to 'connect to server' but cannot get a script working. Any samples

would be much appreciated.

[Mark182]

We use profile manager > log in items > SMB://path/share

[alfatec]

Yes we do that as well for the shared drives but how do you map an individual users folder to the desktop?

[alfatec]

OK Managed to find a script but have run into a small problem,

 

The script is basically as below:

 

tell application "System Events"

tell current user

set fn to full name

try

mount volume "smb://server/shared area/" & fn

end try

end tell

end tell

 

The problem I have is that it will only work if the username of the logged in user is the same as the Display name in Active Directory. e.g. Staff user atest login name is atest but their display name is A Test - Head of Maths.

This will not work. The only way I can get it to work is to change the display name to be the same as the login name: atest. But this now means that it affects the email display details.

Anybody know if I can change the script so that it reads from the username and not the display name.

[dayzd]

Does

set userName to short user name of (system info)

or

set userName to do shell script "whoami"

from this Apple discussion thread: "Find username of current account (AppleScript)" help?

 

 

I've not tested it, but I imagine you'd end up with something like this:

 

tell application "System Events"
set userName to short user name of (system info)
try
mount volume "smb://server/shared area/" & userName
end try
end tell

[alfatec]

Hi Dayzd, Many thanks for your help on that. It worked a treat. Been working on this for ages but now resolved.