mounting network share

[pyrojoe333]

I'm working on mounting a network shae via the terminal. I need to write a login script. The way this works is every user has a folder on our server so that every time they log in they can save stuff to their folder. I wlould like to mount this foulder via login script so when they log in this folder appears on their desktop. right now I'm using mount_smbfs as my command and it works kinda. if I type: mount_smb -u stu000001 -d my_domain //labserver/student1/stu000001 ./student it mounts //laserver/student1 and excludes the stu000001 folder. I think it might be because this folder is a folder not a share? what I'm asking is does anybody know how to mount a remote folder or any way to fix this problem other than making the folder a share, and is there a way to do it in command line. OR how would I do it using apple scripts? and how would I set up apple scripts as a login hook?

Jeramiah

[Lycander]

If it mounts //laserver/student1 then make a sym-link to the stu000001 folder inside that mount. You'll only need to make the sym-link once, then when student1 is mounted the sym-link will resolve properly to the correct folder. This is just one idea, might not be the best.

[WeeZer51402]

What are service are you trying to mount through, afp, smb or nfs?

[WeeZer51402]

oh nevermind i didnt red you post carefully enough its smb

[profx]

try writing an apple script

i did

tell application "Finder"
	try
		
		mount volume "smb://domain;username@netbios/share"
		
	end try
end tell

that will promt for a password if needed or you can set up a .nsmbrc file to bypass the password.

search the forums

[pyrojoe333]

that still gives me the same problem. it mounts //labserver/student1 not //labserver/student1/stu000001

[WeeZer51402]

is 'stu000001' listed as hidden in /etc/smb.conf?

[Lycander]

I think you're only exporting student1 in the smb config. So there's 2 ways you can approach this:

* The way I described above, after mounting the student1 folder, check to see if a sym link exists that will point to the user's folder within student1, create it if it doesn't exist.

* Create a script that will update you smb config on the server side. This way whenever you have a new user, or want to run a batch to create many users, it'll update the smb config by adding the student00000# folder to the shares exported. I'm basically saying, make a tool that'll go and make the shares for you rather than manually make them by hand.