OS X Mount Active Directory Home Drive Automatically (Working Solution for OS X 10.10

[Carter]

Prior to OS X 10.9 Mavericks here at the college we would use the option in the "Directory Utility" app to mount the Active Directory home drives. This was done by checking off "Use UNC path from Active Directory" but with OS X 10.9 Mavericks & OS X 10.10 Yosemite there was the adoptions of SMB2 which does not play well with Microsoft's version of SMB. We would have drives mounting but not the drives we wanted. We would normally want their home folder mounted as (ex. /studentname) but instead it was now being mounted as (ex. share/studentname). This is how we've been running for the past two years and haven't had much luck fixing it. Today with the help of a co-worker we were able to come up with an AppleScript that fixes this.

 

Please see the full article here: http://twistedmac.com/index.php/29-mac-scripts/37-osx-mount-active-directory-home-drive-automatically

[Wesparton]

Hello Carter,

 

I have been having this same issue on multiple sites and not had any luck. When running the scipt i'm getting the following error:

 

tell current application

do shell script "whoami"

--> "Wes"

do shell script "dscl '/Active Directory/school/All Domains/' -read /Users/Wes | grep SMBHome: | cut -c 10- | sed 's/\\\\/\\//g' "

--> ""

end tell

tell application "Finder"

mount volume "SMB:"

--> error number -10004

end tell

tell application "Script Editor"

mount volume "SMB:"

--> error number -1715

end tell

Is there anything else that you had to do to get this working?

 

Has anyone else had this working?

 

Thanks!

 

Wes

[Carter]

I haven't updated the article but use this script instead https://github.com/amsysuk/public_scripts/blob/master/mount_SMBHome/mounthome.sh

 

I have this script in place now with adjustments made to connect to our shares and drives. I'm still having it launch on login via a LaunchAgent.

[Wesparton]

Thanks for that! Im not sure if i'm doing something wrong though as when I paste it into Script Editor and run it throws syntax errors at me.