Network Change Event to Trigger Action to Mount Network Share

Questions & Suggestions
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I’m trying to come up with a way to have KM trigger an action based on when my network connection / name changes. When I connect my Mac to work, either through ethernet, WLAN, or VPN, I want to open and connect to a Network Share on our work network. Is there a way to trigger an action based on Network Name change?

2

There is a Trigger for Wireless Networks, but not expicitly for a wired ethernet connection. So, two questions:

  1. Do you always use a wireless connection?
  2. Do you always login first?

If yes to #1, then you can use the Wireless Network trigger.
If no, but yes to #2, then you can use the Login trigger, and then get the connection information to determine which network you have logged in to.

Use this command in an Execute Shell script:
system_profiler SPNetworkDataType

like this:
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You can then use an IF/THEN Action with this RegEx to determine if you have an ethernet connection:
(?mi)^ ([\w-_ ]+):\n\n +Type: Ethernet\n +Hardware.+\n +BSD Device Name: (.+)\n +IPv4 Addresses: (192[\.\d]+)$

like this:
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Questions?

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  1. No I don’t connect to my work’s wireless network.
  2. I don’t login either when I get to work. I just open my MacBook Pro and wake it from sleep, and then I plug in my thunderbolt 3 dock which has an Ethernet connection. It then immediately connects to the wired network over Ethernet.

I was hoping there was a way to detect when the network name changes.

4

Then you could use the Wake trigger, and use the scripts I gave you to test the network connection.

BTW, IMO it is highly dangerous to allow use of your Mac (or any computer) without a login.

5

Oh, I do have a login and a strong password, but when I wake my machine from sleep, I unlock with Touch ID, since I have one of the newer MacBook Pro models. Not sure if that would trigger a login event?

6

It should. You're just using a different method of providing credentials.
Try it -- create a simple test macro that shows a notification when triggered by login.

7

Doesn’t seem to work. I put my machine to sleep, woke it up, logged in, both with touch id, and again with password, and it didn’t work.

8

Please post your macro. Something's not setup right.

You are using the

Right?

9

No, I’m testing with the Login trigger.

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