[MacTUG] Fileu (N-drive) userid mapping issue

[Keith Peck]

Thanks Herbert and Dani,
I don’t use Automater much so with some help from Glenn I was able to complete the process, although I substituted “cifs” for “smb” as the type of mount listed in the script.

Don’s suggestion of creating an alias also works for me (again I'm using cifs rather than smb for it) but the person who I’m trying to fix the problem for needs the drive to be mounted at login for his synch software to work properly – which the Automater solution does.

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— Keith


From: Herbert Balagtas <herbert.balagtas at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:herbert.balagtas at uwaterloo.ca>>
Date: Monday, January 19, 2015 at 9:50 AM
To: Dani Roloson <daroloson at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:daroloson at uwaterloo.ca>>, Keith Peck <keith.peck at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:keith.peck at uwaterloo.ca>>, MacTUG <mactug at mailman.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:mactug at mailman.uwaterloo.ca>>
Cc: Jason Gorrie <jbgorrie at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:jbgorrie at uwaterloo.ca>>
Subject: Re: [MacTUG] Fileu (N-drive) userid mapping issue

I had the same issue after upgrading to Yosemite, my machine wasn’t joined to nexus and unfortunately my userid on this machine wasn’t the same as my nexusid.
Basically used the same command Dani suggested, I created an automator app and added it to my login items.

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From: Dani Roloson <daroloso at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:daroloso at uwaterloo.ca>>
Date: Friday, January 16, 2015 at 5:16 PM
To: Keith Peck <keith.peck at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:keith.peck at uwaterloo.ca>>, MacTUG <mactug at mailman.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:mactug at mailman.uwaterloo.ca>>
Cc: Jason Gorrie <jbgorrie at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:jbgorrie at uwaterloo.ca>>
Subject: Re: [MacTUG] Fileu (N-drive) userid mapping issue

 2) if you want the current logged in user dynamically,
     checking the owner of /dev/console seems to be one way

open smb://fileu.uwaterloo.ca/users\$/`/bin/ls -l /dev/console | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $3 }'`

but this also seems to work

open smb://fileu.uwaterloo.ca/users\$/$USER

You'd avoid the second one if you might possibly be running the script using ARD UNIX as root
(because something in the script needs that level of power)
since it resolves to root instead of the currently logged in user.
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