Mount Home Directory when logged in locally

I want an application that would ask for the users name and then mount and open their home directory. This will be used when a user is logged on locally and not via OD/AD. Can automator do this or should i stick to apple script. Right now my apple script looks like this.
to getusername()
display dialog "Enter your username:" default answer ""
set username to text returned of result
return {username}
end getusername
to getuserpwd()
display dialog "Enter your password:" default answer "" with hidden answer
set userpwd to text returned of result
return {userpwd}
end getuserpwd
set username to getusername()
set userpass to getuserpwd()
tell application "Finder"
if (username > 161000 and username < 169999) then
open location "afp://" & username & ":" & userpass & "@wwrsdod2.wwrsd.org/HomeDirs/GY2016/" & username
else
open location "afp://" & username & ":" & userpass & "@wwrsdod2.wwrsd.org/HomeDirs/GY2015/" & username
end if
end tell
But the finder opens up to the top level of the share and not the user's folder. Anyone help me out.
Thanks

Hi Tejas,
usually when you see the server invalid (by the Yellow triangle on each repositories) means that your MDM server and MDM Clients have different version. Please, checks the version and be sure these are the same, or server version is more recent of the clients one.
Take a look to this, may be it help:
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