Diamondbridge Stress Management and IT Solutions
Have you ever found that connecting a Macintosh to a Windows NT server via Services for Macintosh is flakey at best?
I strongly recommend a program called DAVE from Thursby systems (www.thursby.com). It isn't cheap, but it provides a NETBIOS/WINS connection to NT and Windows 95 boxes and is, in it's latest version, very reliable. The only disadvantage is that whilst multiple drive connections are possible, automating these after the NT validation is not easy. Thankfully, DAVE is fully scriptable, though digging out the details of how took me a while.
I've written an AppleScript program to automates multiple drive connections once the NT logon username, password, and domain is validated. I used Dialog Director, a very useful freeware dialog box generator, to provide the front end dialog (www.hylight.demon.co.uk).
The program is a work-in-progress so it's not only not very pretty code, but also has a couple of design flaws (one of which concerns the drive settings and the config. file. - see if you can spot it). I've provided it mainly as an example of a starting point for your own versions. I've also not included the icon used in the program. You will need to read through the Dialog Director documentation and use resedit to see how to add your own.
I used Script Debugger to develope this AppleScript - another product I can recommend.