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Re: Attaching to a shared folder on Windows 2003 Server from a MacBook
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Re: Attaching to a shared folder on Windows 2003 Server from a MacBook


  • Subject: Re: Attaching to a shared folder on Windows 2003 Server from a MacBook
  • From: Steve Thompson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:04:53 +0100


On 21 Apr 2009, at 11:45, John Orban wrote:

1.  Take a users logon credentials (I have the MacBooks integrated into my Active Directory),
2.  Using the %username% and %password% obtained from the user logon above
3.  Go out and find the \\servername\%username% (It's a shared folder on the network, albeit hidden) folder and either put an alias on the desktop or mount it in the Finder
4.  Oh yeah, since the user has already authenticated to the network, he/she should NOT have to re-enter his/her password, but

This

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA21463

and this

tell application "Finder" to open location "smb://the_server/the_directory"


should help. If you're already bound and authenticated then there's no need to try and extract the username and password from the kerberos session.

Steve
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Steve Thompson
http://stetho.mp

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