mountHome.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Mount User's SMBHome attribute
# 
# Created by Amsys
#
# Use at your own risk.  Amsys will accept
# no responsibility for loss or damage
# caused by this script.

############## Set Variables

logfile="/Library/Amsys/mountHome.log"
	# Set the path to your log file

mount_protocol="smb"
	# Use "afp" or "smb"

# Create a function to echo output and to write to a log file
writelog()
{
	echo "${1}"	"${2}" "${3}" "${4}"
	echo $(date) "${1}"	"${2}" "${3}" "${4}" >> $logfile
}

writelog "STARTING: User drive mount"

############## Already mounted check

# The following checks confirm whether the user's personal network drive is already mounted,
# (exiting if it is).  If it is not already mounted, it checks if there is a mount point
# already in /Volumes.  If there is, it is deleted.

isMounted=`mount | grep -c "/Volumes/$USER"`

if [ $isMounted -ne 0 ] ; then
	writelog "Network share already mounted for $USER"
	exit 0
fi

############## Get the SMBHome Attribute Value

writelog "Retrieving SMBHome attribute for $USER"

ShortDomainName=`dscl /Active\ Directory/ -read . | grep SubNodes | sed 's|SubNodes: ||g'`
	# Get Domain from full structure, cut the name and remove space.

adHome=$(dscl /Active\ Directory/$ShortDomainName/All\ Domains -read /Users/$USER SMBHome \
		| sed 's|SMBHome:||g' \
		| sed 's/^[\\]*//' \
		| sed 's:\\:/:g' \
		| sed 's/ \/\///g' \
		| tr -d '\n' \
		| sed 's/ /%20/g')
	# Find the user's SMBHome attribue, strip the leading \\ and swap the remaining \ in the path to /
	# The result is to turn \\server.domain.com\path\to\home into server.domain.com/path/to/home

# Next we perform a quick check to make sure that the SMBHome attribute is populated

case "$adHome" in 
 "" ) 
	writelog "ERROR: ${$USER}'s SMBHome attribute does not have a value set.  Exiting script."
	exit 1  ;;
 * ) 
	writelog "Active Directory users SMBHome attribute identified as $adHome"
	;;
esac
	
############## Mount the network home
writelog "Mounting $adHome"

	mount_script=`/usr/bin/osascript > /dev/null << EOT
	tell application "Finder" 
	activate
	mount volume "${mount_protocol}://${adHome}"
	end tell
EOT`

writelog "Script complete"
############## Script complete

exit 0