[Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching

Fri Mar 20 09:15:47 PDT 2009

Still no dice.  The problem I think I am having is that these shares are on old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but heck if I know what version of AFP it is.  I do know that it is old enough that it does not support encrypted passwords.  If I recall you need to have universal passwords enabled and well the Novell side is being migrated to SuSe but I am not really a part of that project.  Different network admins. 

So, I can hit cmd + K and connect to the file share just fine.  I can't connect via command line.  I don't know if there is actually a difference.  DNS is kind of weird because we have an old DNS running on some legacy systems, which it is running an older DNS for these file shares.  At this point in time I am almost considering hosting the database file on one of my Mac servers instead.  I don't know how well that will fare though, and my window to get this working is getting shorter and shorter. 

I just want to create a generic account, grant it access to this one particular file on a network share so the application can write data to the database file.  Once the file share is mounted the application launches and takes care of the rest.   

It works if I do it manually, no problem.  I however, want to have the end user click one self service policy and have all the work done for them under the hood.  That way they just click and it works.   

I was looking at Apple Scripts but those can be interrupted by the end user.  I'd rather it work under the hood via a shell script.

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>>> Eric Winkelhake <eric.winkelhake at mundocomww.com> 03/19/09 5:29 PM >>>
I think he's looking to have the user log in with their creds, right?? so actually that osascript works if you remove the user name and password part.  that'll make the finder request that the user log in rather then the shell.

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Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching 

How about something like this for the script, should do the mount for you without any problems:

osascript -e 'mount volume "afp://username:pass@servername/sharepoint"'

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From: Thomas Larkin <tlarki at kckps.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0500
To: Thomas Larkin <TLARKI.PO-001.admin at kckps.org>, <casper at list.jamfsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching

Well   

A bit of progress, but not in the right direction.  I can mount the share fine via the finder, however when using the mount_afp command I can never get it to work.  I always get this error:    

mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 118    

So this is my method of doing this from the terminal:    

mkdir /Volumes/FS106   

mount_afp afp://user:password@10.10.10.10 ( afp://user:password@10.10.10.10/ )<mailto:afp://user:password@10.10.10.10> /Volumes/FS106   

I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just auto maps via a script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if that volume is mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the app, which will have location specific configuration for where to look for the database file.   

Any help would be appreciated   

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>>> "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> 03/19/09 11:28 AM >>>

Well   

This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in.  I have some old Novell servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must have users log in using plain text.  So I need to mass edit a plist file on each user account to allow this.  Then I want them to click once on a self service policy and have it map the network share that holds the database files.  Then in the app's preferences I already have it pointed out where to look.   

I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in interactive mode it always asks for authentication in the terminal?  I can't seem to get a GUI based dialog box.  I also need it to wait for about 20 seconds while the user authenticates and then have it launch the app in question.   

I have the app configured and it works when I do everything manually, but I need to wrap this up in a one click solution for the end user, so they don't get confused.  My other thought is to just create one generic user account that can have access to this database file and then use that generic password in the script and just have it mount under the hood with out the user's actual credentials.    

Thanks for any advice.   

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