[Heath]

I am working on building a login windows interface which allows are students to use lab computer which login as a default lab account with their network credentials.
What I would like to do is build an interface (first I have to have the applescript working).
basicall I have a script
tell application “Finder”
activate
display dialog “ENTER YOUR USERNAME” default answer “”
set currentUser to text returned of the result
display dialog “ENTER YOUR PASSWORD” default answer “”
set currentPass to text returned of the result
mount volume “afp://currentUser:currentPass@10.3.1.105”
end tell

I need to mask the password field with ****** how? I also need to capture those items and pass them to the mount command?

How to go about this?

[Heath]

Anyone know about OSX causing high Utilization on the netware server? I saw the thing about the AFP memory leak, but I am not sure of that version? We have Netware 6.5 sp3. I pulled down a patch today for AFP, but it is crazy. The macs go so slow when connected to the netware server it is crazy. I am thinking about changing over to Home directory access via SMB instead of AFP.

[Heath]

Error on Staff only is as follows

Login Failed

Sorry, the password you entered is incorrect. Please reenter it.

Students in the root ou are fine, staff are in a sub ou and they are the ones who get this error when trying to mount the volume from a connect to server.
But, when logging in to the workstation LDAP actually authenticates the user and logs in. It just can’t find the Home directory. and gives an error when logged in (temp desktop created) that it can’t find the home directory. This is something specific with the sub OU.

[Heath]

We just setup a Fresh 10.3.9 system this summer
(2 actually). Both High Schools connect to their local LDAP/edirectory server which also contains their Home directories. Students (accounts in the root OU of the building container cn=username,ou=school,o=orgname) seem to be able to mount their volumes login works as suggested.
But, Staff cn=username,ou=staff,ou=school,o=orgname cannot even begin to mount their volume either by LDAP login to the X.3.9 machine or via a connect to server. They receive an error about an invalid username or password.
It must be something with the OUs in edirectory and teh AFP volume, but what?

[Heath]

Thanks for the tip. With that fix, have been able to get good connects from several OS X and WinXP computers. Once I get some other stuff done, I’ll take the next step (to IPSec) and join in the VaporSec game with the rest of ya’ll. Thanks again. 😀

[Heath]

Thanks for the tip. With that fix, have been able to get good connects from several OS X and WinXP computers. Once I get some other stuff done, I’ll take the next step (to IPSec) and join in the VaporSec game with the rest of ya’ll. Thanks again. 😀

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