How about a script that is even MORE useful?

How about a script that automatically backtracks EVERY incoming eMail to check to see if it is from a REAL eMail address. If it is, it lets the eMail through... if it is not and is a auto-generated address from a SPAM-bot... it automatically gets rejected and never even shows up in your inbox.

That would be much more helpful to me!

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I also did something similar but i made a dashboard widget to switch using a command line command and then just outputted the message the the widget window. it works well since widgets load fast but, this hint is pretty rad too.

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http://www.macosxhints.com/dlfiles/airport_location_scpt.txt is broken.

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Instead of using system profiler, which can take a bit to run on some older Macs, I'd suggest using the following:

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/ \
Versions/A/Resources/airport -I | grep '.* SSID:' | sed 's/^.* SSID: //'

N.B. For any unfamilar with AppleScript, please remember to use that as a single line -- without the space and backslash characters on the first line -- inside the script.

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Here's a more compact version that uses awk:

airport -I | awk '/ SSID/ {print $2}'

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Tweaked the above so it would print the entire SSID even if it includes spaces -

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport -I | awk '/ SSID/ {split($0, parts, ": "); print parts[2]}'

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Here's a more compact and faster version. sed is much smaller and faster than awk.

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport -I | sed '/ SSID: /!d; s/^.* SSID: //'

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the whole set location part can be replaced with:

do shell script "/usr/sbin/scselect '" & CurrentLocation & "'"

now the option assistive devices in system is no longer needed.
thanks to Richard F. for pointing this out to me.

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where does this go? I need baby steps here. And can anyone tell me how to use SleepWatcher? I installed but there are no instructions on how to use it. It states there are instructions within Man...but where does that reside?

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put it where

tell application "System Events"
  click menu item CurrentLocation of menu "Location" of menu item "Location" of menu "Apple" of menu bar 1 of process "Finder"
end tell

is now. also remove the

tell application "Finder"
  activate
end tell

it's no longer needed

might as well post the complete script again:

set AirportName to do shell script ¬
  "system_profiler SPAirPortDataType|awk -F\": \" '/Current Wireless Network/{print $2}'"

set CurrentLocation to "Automatic"
if AirportName is "Home" then set CurrentLocation to "Home"
if AirportName is "Work1" then set CurrentLocation to "My work"
if AirportName is "Work2" then set CurrentLocation to "Other Office"

say "I think I am at location " & CurrentLocation & ", I will adjust my network settings accordingly"

do shell script "/usr/sbin/scselect '" & CurrentLocation & "'"end tell

if AirportName is "Work1" then mount volume "smb://server/share"
if AirportName is "Home" then mount volume "smb://administrator@mycomputer/share"

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Why is this line which runs a shell script:

do shell script "/usr/sbin/scselect '" & CurrentLocation & "'"

better than the one line of applescript ?:

set CurrentLocation to "Automatic"

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The two lines you mention do not do the same thing. The shell script changes the current location, whereas the applescript line you mention only sets a variable. That variable does not actually change the location. The last line of the original script changes the location, and you'll notice that its quite a bit longer and requires that "Access for Assistive Devices" be turned on in Universal Access.

JP

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I used your script and it worked flawlessly. I don't know what these other suggestors are indicating because the instructions are weak. Other people are giving replacement commands or sugestions without any instructions on wherer to include the commands.

I think it's important to point out that this script can be saved as a Application from within Script Editor and then launched using a F-key using the Xkeys application.

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Anyone have experience with this kind of thing in light of closed networks and even Cisco LEAP authentication complications added to the mix?

I mean I have locations that if you switch to will connect to all these networks (mixed closed, and or LEAPed) and will such a script succeed in this case?

I also agree that everyone's suggestion on patches to the script would be nice as a finished product.

From reading all the subthreads it *looks* like, this might serve?

set AirportName to do shell script ¬
airport -I | awk '/ SSID/ {print $2}'

set CurrentLocation to "Automatic"
if AirportName is "Home" then set CurrentLocation to "Home"
if AirportName is "Work1" then set CurrentLocation to "My work"
if AirportName is "Work2" then set CurrentLocation to "Other Office"

say "I think I am at location " & CurrentLocation & ", I will adjust my network settings accordingly"

do shell script "/usr/sbin/scselect '" & CurrentLocation & "'"end tell

if AirportName is "Work1" then mount volume "smb://server/share"
if AirportName is "Home" then mount volume "smb://administrator@mycomputer/share"

Aside from that I have some 30 locations so detailing such a script seems a pretyt big job.... Would something read through the locations actually defined if something in the name related to the network you joined?

Finally there are those occasions when you join a wired network instead....

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I have written a program which will do just this. Run it once (to set up the configuration), click 'Apply' and forget all about it. Bear with me because it is currently an alpha - but I will get it finished as quickly as I can. For now, though, it works - albeit not perfectly. Even so, it could be just what you want http://web.mac.com/p_harris/iWeb/Pascal/Software_files/Locamatic.dmg

Please read the documentation before running Locamatic!

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