Mount Network Drive

[casareanderson]

Hi i am trying to mount users network drive and am running into some issues using configuration profiles , does anyone have any good ideas or ways they have got around mounting network drives with a AD authentication

[mark_mahabir]

We use a variation of this and it works very well.

[dstranathan]

I mount SMB network drives via Policies and Scripts (bash & AppleScript) that run at login.

-All Macs mount a couple common/collaborative drives.
-Each department mounts their own dept network drive.
-Each employee mounts their own network home drive.

[obi-k · Accepted solution]

I use AppleScript apps and push them to the users' Docks.

https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/11091/smb-desktop-dock-items

[casareanderson]

thanks @dstranathan and @mvu

[Caist]

We do this for all of our lab machines,

My process is 2 fold. I have a policy that runs on login that runs 2 scripts:

Script 1 - Mount Network Share
This script I found in the JAMF Resource Kit (https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/third-party-products/files/476/mountnetworkshare-sh-mount-a-network-share) that basically goes and finds the kerberos ticket information for the logged in user and mounts a drive to a specific location I setup in the script.

Script 2 - Symbolic Links on Desktop
A custom script I made to create 2 symbolic links for 2 folders located in the drive that was mounted in script 1 (For us, this is the Documents and Desktop folder)