[DM-MUG] applescript and samba volumes

[Barry Von Ahsen]

Thanks Bryan, that's basically what I was thinking of - mount it with 
applescript, monitor it with cron

-barry


Bryan Baker wrote:
> Well, I do it w/ an applscript on my laptop, but for a smb share I need 
> our Xserve to access for backups, I just have a cron job that uses the 
> mount_smbfs command.
> 
> here's the script I use on my laptop:
> 
> tell application "Finder"
>     activate
>     open location "smb://<username>@<server>/<private share>"
>     open location "smb://<username>@<server>/<public share>"
> end tell
> 
> (I replaced all real values w/<placeholders>)
> 
> here's the bit I put into /etc/daily.local which runs every night:
> 
> # Mount the backup directory if not mounted
> if [[ -e /Volumes/<path to a file I put in the target directory> ]]
> then
>         echo All good - it is here
> else
>         /sbin/mount_smbfs //<user>:<password>@<server>/<share> <mount 
> point>
> fi
> 
> so it checks and makes sure it's there, if not it mounts the share.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 13, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
>> I'm helping with an xserve that mounts a samba share via applescript. 
>> Is there a way to specify what group it gets mounted as?  It is 
>> already using "as username", but I couldn't find how to do a group.  I 
>> know I can do this using bsd tools, but I wanted to try to do it the 
>> os x way
>>
>> -barry
>>
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