Best way to run script to copy files on login

I ran the following script last year for the purpoase of copying shortcuts (ex. college webmail, helpdesk, website) to the desktop. I had the shortcuts in a folder on an open share and on login the script would run and copy the shortcuts.
#bin/bash
mkdir /Volumes/scripts
mount -t afp afp://server/scripts /Volumes/scripts
cp -R /Volumes/scripts/desktop_shortcuts/* ~/Desktop
umount /Volumes/scripts
killall Terminal
This allowed me to add or adjust shortcuts so we would never need to handle adding these manually in the image or after lab deployment. Last year I added it to the "Login Itmes" for the user but this year I'd like to have it run from a server. I've had no luck getting this to wrok from a WGM Server or Profile Manager Server. I tried the "Login Hooks" from the serverside and no luck.
I can't seem to find a clear document that tells me what the proper scripting procedure is for Mavericks.
Some posts say used launchd, some say .plist & others applescript.

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