Script to mount SMB share?

Looking at the mountNetworkShare.sh script, in this case "share" refers to
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:13 AM, <josh.glassing at spps.org> wrote:
the share point on the server itself. So yes, in your example, "test" is
what would be put in the share section, or variable.

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Share is a reference to the actualy share name on the server.

So if you had a path: smb://server.uwec.edu/sharename

Server: server.uwec.edu
Share: sharename

The script creates the local folders that mount will use to mount it to based on that information as well.

Craig E

so if you wanted to connect to a nested folder under a share point this
is how you should code it

server=10.20.10.20 share=finance_docs

So normally if you hit ? + K and connect to server by typing in
smb://10.20.10.20/finance_docs you need to fill in the share point from
the shared server. So from the resource kit...

# HARDCODED VALUES SET HERE loginUsername="$3" shareUsername="$3"#The username of the user to be used to mount the
share authType="kerberos"#Valid values are "kerberos" (default) or "password"

password=""#Note this only needs to be set if authentication type is
"password" mountType="smb"#The type of file share. Valid types are "afp" (default)
or "smb" serverAddress="10.20.10.20"#The IP address or DNS name of the server -
if left blank, the script will search for the "SMBHome" attribute in the
user record share="finance_docs"#The name of the share you are mounting - if left
blank, the script will search for the "SMBHome" attribute in the user
record

I hope that clears things up and makes sense

Ok, I got my stuff to work, here is what I ended up doing. I ended up creating a policy to have casper run a command at login to mount

sudo -u nameofuser mkdir /Volumes/Test/; sudo -u nameofuser mount -t smbfs //nameofuser:password at server/Test /Volumes/Test

and then another policy to unmount it at logout

umount /Volumes/Test

I was having all sorts of goofy problems tryin to get casper to run the scripts, if I ran the scripts from terminal when I had them locally stored on a machine they ran fine, but when I'd upload them to casper admin and try to run them they'd keep telling me there was an error on line 1 ... I am not sure what the problem is with that, when I get more time I will probably dig into it deeper... but I got stuff working the way I need it to.

Thank you to everyone for your input
-Josh

Re: [Casper] Script to mount SMB share?

Thomas Larkin to:
josh.glassing
08/13/2010 10:26 AM

Cc:
"Lance Ogletree", "Casper List", casper-bounces, "Craig S. Ernst"

so if you wanted to connect to a nested folder under a share point this is how you should code it

server=10.20.10.20 share=finance_docs

So normally if you hit ? + K and connect to server by typing in smb://10.20.10.20/finance_docs you need to fill in the share point from the shared server. So from the resource kit...

# HARDCODED VALUES SET HERE loginUsername="$3" shareUsername="$3"#The username of the user to be used to mount the share authType="kerberos"#Valid values are "kerberos" (default) or "password" password=""#Note this only needs to be set if authentication type is "password" mountType="smb"#The type of file share. Valid types are "afp" (default) or "smb" serverAddress="10.20.10.20"#The IP address or DNS name of the server - if left blank, the script will search for the "SMBHome" attribute in the user record share="finance_docs"#The name of the share you are mounting - if left blank, the script will search for the "SMBHome" attribute in the user record

I hope that clears things up and makes sense

Permissions problem on the file?

Craig E

On 8/13/10 3:15 PM, "josh.glassing at spps.org" <josh.glassing at spps.org> wrote:

Ok, I got my stuff to work, here is what I ended up doing. I ended up creating a policy to have casper run a command at login to mount

sudo -u nameofuser mkdir /Volumes/Test/; sudo -u nameofuser mount -t smbfs //nameofuser:password at server/Test /Volumes/Test

and then another policy to unmount it at logout

umount /Volumes/Test

I was having all sorts of goofy problems tryin to get casper to run the scripts, if I ran the scripts from terminal when I had them locally stored on a machine they ran fine, but when I'd upload them to casper admin and try to run them they'd keep telling me there was an error on line 1 ... I am not sure what the problem is with that, when I get more time I will probably dig into it deeper... but I got stuff working the way I need it to.

Thank you to everyone for your input
-Josh

Re: [Casper] Script to mount SMB share?

Thomas Larkin to: josh.glassing 08/13/2010 10:26 AM

Cc: "Lance Ogletree", "Casper List", casper-bounces, "Craig S. Ernst"

I'm a little late here but I've had my own stuff in place for a while and
it's different. Perhaps you could try it and see if it makes a difference.
This is a line from my login script. Without modding, $building is defined
earlier, this gives them the server name and $1 is the current user as far
as OS X is concerned not Casper. I suppose you could just change that to $3
for Casper.

#change focus to current user to run as them
su $1 -c /bin/sh <<EOF
#Make a place to mount the share for the user
mkdir /Volumes/$1
#initiate the Kerberos mount command and attach to the directory we made
just above
mount_afp "afp://;AUTH=Client%20Krb%20v2@"$building"xxx01.domain.org/Users/$1"
/Volumes/$1
#We're done as the current user
EOF

OR, without my building variable

su $1 -c /bin/sh <<EOF
mkdir /Volumes/$1
mount_afp "afp://;AUTH=Client%20Krb%20v2@someserver.domain.org/Users/$1"
/Volumes/$1
EOF

HTH

- JD