Applescript for mounting Windows Shares

I have scoured the web for this script for mounting windows shares in OS X. I am compiling it as an application and dropping it into the startup items:
tell application "Finder"
activate
try
mount volume "cifs://SERVER/SHARE"
end try
end tell
My question is this: I have a MacBook(Pro) and use it at home and at work... I have scripts setup for both locations, to mount various shares, but when I'm at home and the work scripts run, they fail to mount (because I'm not on the work network), or when I'm at home, the work shares fail to mount, generating a dialog with something to the effect of "couldn't find that share"... I've got a dozen of these scripts, it would be nice if it would just silently fail, rather then generating multiple dialogs.
I was thinking of making the apple script check my ip address, and if it returns a work IP address, then it would go onto talking to the finder, if it doesn't find a matching IP address, then it would just end.
Or, somehow have applescript ping the server that it's trying to connect to, and on success, run the script, and on fail just end it.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Dan Ormsby

You should probably post in the AppleScript forums:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=724

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Hope in your help....:
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Last edited by Alexbit (2010-09-23 21:29:13)

Thank you very (VERY) much!
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If can be usefull to other this is the complete script:
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umount: /home/Samba_share/Area: not mounted
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Tomorrow I will test again when I'm at office.
Meanwhile can you check if I made a macroscopic mistakes?
Thank you again!
Last edited by Alexbit (2010-09-23 17:34:49)

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