[PLUG] helping a school district

["Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

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My Brother-in-law called me today - he's a vice-principal at Delran High School in NJ.

He said they need a Linux "script" to connect to a remote shared (Microsoft) drive.

My notes are:

   Student logs in to Ubuntu 12.04 computer.
   Student is automatically (or manual via icon click) prompted to enter:
      username
      password
      location
        course (optional)
   From this information the script:
       builds the path
       authenticates the user
       mounts the appropriate drive.

Presumably something will be required to disconnect the user's drive when they
log out of the UI.

I could do this with the shell but who (besides me and you) uses the shell?

Is this easy enough to do with something like Tcl/Tk or Perl/Tk (or some Python
magic that I'm totally unaware of)?

Examples?  Prior art?  Suggestions?

Thanks,
Eric
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