I've written and AppleScript App that runs a "mount -t smbfs " command to mount a Windows Shared drive that our Staff use.
The App has been used successfully for a number of months until today. If a user has an @ symbol in their password the application fails. The path is rejected.
Here's the script:
-- Teaching Drive Access
--Get The Shortname and PC Password of current user
--set PCusername to (short user name of (system info))
set PCusername to "benstaff"
--set PCPassword to text returned of (display dialog "What's your PC Password?" default answer "" with title "T Drive" with icon stop with hidden answer)
--Create Sharepoint on Desktop
set FolderTarget to (path to desktop folder as text) & "DoNotUseTeachingDrive"
try
FolderTarget as alias
on error
do shell script "mkdir /Users/" & PCusername & "/Desktop/DoNotUseTeachingDrive/"
end try
set mountcommand to "mount -t smbfs "
set mountuser to "//" & PCusername & ":" & PCPassword
set mountuser to "//" & PCusername & ":" & PCPassword
set mountvolume to "@ncs-srv-fs3.ncs.local/Teaching"
set machomepath to "/Users/" & PCusername & "/Desktop/DoNotUseTeachingDrive/"
set mountwindowshome to mountcommand & mountuser & mountvolume & " " & machomepath as string
do shell script mountwindowshome
The full output of the mountwindowshome
is:
mount -t smbfs //mystaff:PE91XA!!@@ncs-srv-fs3.ncs.local/Teaching /Users/mystaff/Desktop/DoNotUseTeachingDrive/
If I run the command in the Terminal without the password I am asked for a password and the share is mounted correctly.
Any help/pointers would be gratefully received.