I have been using the following code to create a folder on a users AD assigned home share then populating an alias on the desktop for the new folder:
--Set some values for reuse
set theUser to do shell script "whoami" --return lower case values
set theUserPath to do shell script "whoami | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'"
set theFilePath to "/Volumes/" & theUserPath & "$/User_Profile/SharedBox" as Unicode text
set serverAddress to do shell script "dscl . -read /Users/" & theUser & " SMBHome | awk '{print $2}' | tr '' '/'"
--display dialog theFilePath
tell application "Finder"
mount volume "smb:" & serverAddress
delay 2
do shell script "mkdir -p " & theFilePath
delay 2
set theFile to POSIX file theFilePath as text
set theAlias to make new alias file at POSIX file ("/Users/" & theUser & "/Desktop") to theFile
set the name of theAlias to “SharedBox (Online)"
end tell
I am currently using AppleScript to perform these functions, but I'm wondering if there is a more efficient way to achieve the same goal. Appreciate any guidance.
