Re: [PLUG] helping a school district

[Lincoln Fessenden <linc@lincgeek.org>]

I would say just a shell script that uses zenity would work great!

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 02:02:09PM -0400, Eric at Lucii.org wrote:
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> My Brother-in-law called me today - he's a vice-principal at Delran High School in NJ.
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> He said they need a Linux "script" to connect to a remote shared (Microsoft) drive.
> 
> My notes are:
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>    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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