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I have a Timemachine setting problem. And I dig this problem 2 weeks ago but not any progress.



Envirment:
100 ad doamin Mac pros
100 non ad domain Mac book air
i have created a backup storage path : afp://server-mp.oocl.com/Backups



Problem:
1) If I use timemachine profile setting which can't apply to the non AD domain mac book. Because the login mac book are offline before login so i can't apply it by mount drive at logon item
2) So i try to use script to let the computer run the tmutil script when the machine can ping the company network DNS. But the script 'tmutil setdestination afp://$user:$pass@server-mp.oocl.com/backups'. that need the user AD password but i dont know how to set variables to let user input the password by them self



Below is the script i dig



#!/bin/bash
curuser=ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f 4
itest=$(ping -c 1 146.222.5.160 | grep "100.0% packet loss" | wc -l)
while [ $itest == "1" ]
do
sleep 5
itest=$(ping -c 1 146.222.5.160 | grep "100.0% packet loss" | wc -l)
done
sudo tmutil enable
sudo tmutil setdestination -p afp://$curuser@SERVER-MP.oocl.com/Backups


Does any buddy has the similar case. Please share the ideas
Thanks

I've never used it in this context, but I have been recently working with the cocoaDialog.
Here is the link to the github:
http://mstratman.github.io/cocoadialog/#documentation



There are some nice options for interacting with the users, including a secure input box, which you may be able to use to prompt the user to put in their password.



Again, I haven't used it for a script like this, but it may be of some help.

@Bauer
Dear Bauer
I saw your script in
https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=7114
do you have any suggest for my satuation?
Thanks

@jennifer_unger
Thanks man you save me

Thanks @jennifer and @kenho794



This is my final script i would like to share:



#!/bin/bash



######################################################################## 

# Created By: Thijs v Vught 

# Creation Date: November 2015

# Last modified: November 13th, 2015

# Brief Description: Mounts QNAP disk to your MAC (With cocoaDialog)

######################################################################## 



# Set CocoaDialog Location 

CD="/usr/local/bin/cocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS/CocoaDialog"



itest=$(ping -c 1 10.12.232.100 | grep "100.0% packet loss" | wc -l)

while [ $itest == "1" ]

    do

    sleep 5

    itest=$(ping -c 1 10.12.232.100 | grep "100.0% packet loss" | wc -l)

done

sudo tmutil enable

pw=($($CD secure-standard-inputbox --title "QNAP TimeMachine" --informative-text "Enter password:"))

password=${pw[1]}

sudo tmutil setdestination afp://TimeMachine:$password@yourdnsname.nl/TMBackup

$CD ok-msgbox --title "QNAP TimeMachine" --text "Timemachine Disk is Mounted"



exit 0
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