Problems mounting a shared drive.

[RobertBasil]

When I run the following line from the terminal it (of course) works just fine.

open smb://phs-fs1/HOME/testphs

But when I apply the following policy it does not (screenshot). (No errors, nothing). Multiple people log into our machines I so I use the JAMF placeholder $3 for the logged in username.

This is a simple mount, not rocket science, what is going wrong?

[jared_f]

We tried configuration profiles and it was nothing but unsuccessful. We use David Cland's script from JAMF Nation. Once configuring it, you could run it via a policy. It works great.

Here it is:

#!/bin/bash

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

        tell application "Finder" 
        activate
        mount volume "smb://zfssa1/home_staff/${theuser}/"
        end tell


EOT

echo $theuser
killall cfprefsd
defaults write com.apple.finder ShowMountedServersOnDesktop true
killall -HUP Finder

More information here: https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=14262#responseChild86562

[RobertBasil]

When I run your script above via the terminal it works great, but when I run it via a login policy I get the dreaded 5014 error:

[jared_f]

@RobertBasil Are you using Windows Server?

[RobertBasil]

@jared_f

No, we are hosted by JAMF.

[RobertBasil]

P.S. I have it set to run during login and ongoing.

[jared_f]

I was asking if your storage server (which I am assuming you are mounting) is Windows. Can you set it as just a login script, we use a different MDM so it is hard to replicate your exact setup.

[Look]

One thing I can see about that script is it has no wait for Finder function, you might find running as a login policy that it's happening too soon.
Try running it from Self Service and see if it runs that way, if it does the issue probably relates to the timing of it during login.

[RobertBasil]

@jared_f

We are connecting to AD for login in and the shared drive is assigned to a windows share.

No, I cannot see it as just a login script.

[RobertBasil]

@Look

I'll give that a shot, thanks.

[jhuls]

Unless someone has another method I believe you have to use a launchagent to launch the script so that it collects the correct user name.

[Look]

You can definitely do it straight out of Casper in an AD evironment at least, this is my current script for doing on either a login trigger or from Self Service (it's an evolution on the same script I have posted before). You pass it a share path and all scoping is done by Casper and to avoid complication it's probably best to use the same AD group you use to control access to the share (i.e. there is no error checking in the script to see if you actually have access, it just tries to mount it).

#!/bin/bash
#2017 Version Samuel Look
#All care no responsibility
#Mounts the requested share if it doesn't already exist if left blank it will attempt to mount AD SMBhome
#Accepts shares in the form smb://server/share
#Intended to be run as a Login policy from Casper on AD bound machines only and has only been tested in this context.

##### Start seperate process #####
(

##### SUBROUTINES #####

Share_Path_Valid() {
if [[ -z "$Share_Path" ]]; then
Machine_Domain=$(dscl /Active Directory/ -read . SubNodes | awk '{print $2}')
Share_Path="$(dscl "/Active Directory/$Machine_Domain/All Domains" -read /Users/$Current_User SMBHome | awk '!/is not valid/' | sed -e 's/SMBHome: /smb:/g' -e 's/\///g')"
fi
if [[ "$Share_Path" ]]; then
logger "Sharemount:$Share_Name Path check PASS $Share_Path"
return 0
else
logger "Sharemount:$Share_Name Path check FAIL"
return 1
fi
}

#####

User_Ready() {
Loop_End=$((SECONDS + 60))
Current_User=$(stat -f%Su /dev/console | awk '!/root/')
while [[ -z "$Current_User" ]] && [[ $SECONDS -lt $Loop_End ]]; do
sleep 10
Current_User=$(stat -f%Su /dev/console | awk '!/root/')
done
if [[ "$Current_User" ]]; then
logger "Sharemount:$Share_Name User check PASS $Current_User"
return 0
else
logger "Sharemount:$Share_Name User check FAIL"
return 1
fi
}

#####

Finder_Ready() {
Loop_End=$((SECONDS + 60))
while [[ -z "$(ps -c -u $Current_User | awk /CoreServicesUIAgent/)" ]] && [[ $SECONDS -lt $Loop_End ]]; do
sleep 10
done
if [[ "$(ps -c -u $Current_User | awk /Finder/)" ]]; then
logger "Sharemount:$Share_Name Finder check PASS"
return 0
else
logger "Sharemount:$Share_Name Finder check FAIL"
return 1
fi
}

#####

Not_Mounted() {
if [[ -z "$(mount | awk '/'$Current_User'/ && //'$Share_Name' /')" ]]; then
logger "Sharemount:$Share_Name Mount check PASS $Share_Name"
return 0
else
logger "Sharemount:$Share_Name Mount check FAIL already mounted"
return 1
fi
}

#####

Mount_Drive() {
True_Path=$(echo $Share_Path | sed 's//////'$Current_User'@/g')
logger "Sharemount:$Share_Name Attempting to mount $True_Path"
osascript<<END
tell application "Finder"
mount volume "$True_Path"
end tell
END
}

##### START #####

Share_Path=$4
Share_Name="$(echo $Share_Path | awk -F"/" '{print $NF}')"

if User_Ready && Finder_Ready && Share_Path_Valid && Not_Mounted; then
Mount_Drive
else
logger "Sharemount:$Share_Name Conditions not met to attempt drive mounting $Share_Path"
fi

##### End seperate process #####
) &

##### FIN #####