Connecting to server at login (newbie)

Question

I am trying to setup accounts for teachers at our school that would allow them to login in to a local account, but automatically allow them to connect to the server to get at their documents. The reason for this is to bypass the necessity of the teachers to wait for the slowness of the login process, and to not have them need to manually enter in the connect to server, or apple+k command (trust me, it is easier without that!). Ideally, I would like to have that available on these options occur on the Guest account.
Thanks for any help!!

Answer 1

mrsmittys wrote:
I'll give it a try tomorrow at school. The next question is where do I add this script to have work at login? It looks like I should be able to copy it to an appropriate place in the Guest directory?
don't even bother with adding anything to the guest directory. It will be promptly deleted on logout.
From your admin account make a Users Agent using [Lingon|http://lingon.sourceforge.net>. When creating it check the box to run it when somebody logs in. Make it run an application (you'll have to make one) that mounts the server. You can use the automator to make that app as others suggested but I would use Apple Script.
The Script should look something like this:
set UN to do shell script "whoami"
if UN is "Guest" then
--this is to make sure the script only does something if Guest is logged in
mount volume "afp:10.1.1.21/path/to/share/"
end if
You'll have to modify the afp part -I'm still confused about how you want it to work.
Thanks, that looks like the script that I need, and you are completely correct about not needing the username:password syntax. (assuming it works)
Thanks for the suggestion about adding a launchd. You guys ROCK!!
Message was edited by: mrsmittys