Profile Manager, variables and network file shares

[Ted]

Hi chaps,

I’m working on implementing a set of profiles for a number of machines in my OS X 10.7.3 Lion environment. They’re most likely going to be applied manually, that is no automatic pushing of profiles.
One of the selected payloads in one of the profiles tell the machines to mount a personal share, i. e. the mount path contains the %short_name% variable as the names of the shares to be mounted is determined by our user names.
This however does not seem to be looked up at user logon. All I’m getting at logon is an error message saying “There was a problem connecting to the server …”
As far as I understand this issue, it’s because the actual variable %short_name% does not translate in the profile.

Does anyone know of a workaround, or some other solution to my dilemma?
Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Ted

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