SMB share mounted via AD server to OSX client during login
 

Ok, I've got one...

How do you mount an SMB share via Active Directory to a Mac OSX.3.6 client during login? I know I could manually mount and copy into startup on local machine, or run an Applescript locally, but I would like to either utilize a script (PERL?) hosted from the AD server for ALL Mac accounts to utlitize or configure via AD Users and Computers directly.

Any help would be appreciated...
Thanks!

connecting to a sub directory
 

ok i have a question on this thread.

i compiled a script (as above) to connect to a win2003 volume, but i am also needing to connect a second volume which is a users directory, which requires the script to connect me directly to a sub directory, and not to the root. the root is locked down to everyone but admin's, but everytime i try and run

mount volume "SMB://<WORKGROUP>;<USER>:<PWD>@<SERVER>/<SHARE>/<USERS DIR>"

it fails.

any suggestions?

:eek: Is any of this improved in 10.4 ?

Is the Share on AD or on a Windows 2003 server ? If so check with your Admins to see if they are using DFS, which is a file system that is layed on top of the NTFS partition... This path system is not compatible with the SMB on Panther or Tiger for now (only the newest version of Samba for Linux and Unix supports this and it has not been re-compiled for Mac yet)... If this is the case, you would have to get from your admins the real path to the file, and not the DFS one. Also, a little trick if ytou have a PC as well that has that drive mounted, check its properties and you will have in there the original file path as well ast the DFS one.