Possible to mount network drive on connection to network?

[Dimwhit]

I'm trying to figure out a way that when my boss opens her computer in the office (usually from sleep), as soon as it connects to our office network (and no other), it mounts a network drive (which Time Machine backs up to). Is this possible? Not sure if it would be an Automator script, or an Apple Script, or maybe something else?

 

[satcomer]

Well did you add the connected server share to her Login items yet? On my Macs all share (Time Machine share also) mount after sleep with no problem, as long as the network share is powered on and sharing.

 

[Dimwhit]

Well did you add the connected server share to her Login items yet? On my Macs all share (Time Machine share also) mount after sleep with no problem, as long as the network share is powered on and sharing.

The problem is that I don't want her machine to try to mount the shared drive when she starts it at home or elsewhere off the network. I only want it to happen when she starts up (or wakes from sleep) and connects to our office wireless network.

 

[satcomer]

It should work as long as the Mac is on the domain in the office.

I am starting to think that she should use the free Airport Location.

 

[Menge]

There is some software that do this kind of "context aware computing":
MarcoPolo - http://www.symonds.id.au/marcopolo/
NetworkLocation - http://centrix.ca/NetworkLocation/
Location X - http://homepage.mac.com/locationmanager/

All these allow you to configure certain actions when a certain location is detected.

 

[Dimwhit]

Thanks! I'll take a look at these apps and see if one will work.