Help with AppleScript mounting home directory share drive

[obi-k]

Hi there,

I'm trying to create an AppleScript to mount a network home drive for logged in users. Our current Python Script is dead with 12.3.

I'd like to map the drive for the current user in the script below. Instead of jane.doe, I tried using $3, $User, ~ and a bunch of brackets. How can I replace jane.doe with the current signed in user?

tell application "Finder"

open location "smb://example.com/networkshares/Home%20Directories/jane.doe"

end tell

[YanW · Accepted solution]

#!/bin/bash

currentuser=$(/usr/bin/who | awk '/console/{ print $1 }')
/usr/bin/osascript > /dev/null << EOT

        tell application "Finder" 
        activate
        mount volume "smb://example.com/networkshares/Home%20Directories/${currentuser}/"
        end tell

EOT

[YanW · Accepted solution]

#!/bin/bash

currentuser=$(/usr/bin/who | awk '/console/{ print $1 }')
/usr/bin/osascript > /dev/null << EOT

        tell application "Finder" 
        activate
        mount volume "smb://example.com/networkshares/Home%20Directories/${currentuser}/"
        end tell

EOT

[obi-k]

Yeah, that worked. I'm trying to embed this in an AppleScript so I can push it out as an App. Do you know how to embed this bash script into AppleScript?

I'm trying the "do shell script" command.

 

 

[YanW · Accepted solution]

This is the basic idea

set userName to do shell script "whoami"

mount volume "smb://example.com/networkshares/Home%20Directories/" & userName

[obi-k]

Woah, that worked! Thanks a lot @YanW!

This will give me 2 options to let users open this in Self Service and download the AppleScript Apps to their Dock and open. Very cool.