automating a script from a user logon to mount a network vol

Hello to anyone who can help.
I have just been put into the deep end with some macs at my college, I am a computer engineer who has been working for 10+ years on windows enviroments so please forgive my naivety. Is it possible to write an apple script that will run like a login script in windows, which will when a user logs in run the script automaticaly and mount a network volume the same as the login name.
For example username 5bloggsf logs into the mac and as he logs in the network volume \server5bloggsf is mounted on the desktop.
any help would be most gratefully appreciated.
PS are there any technical courses available for the mac osx 10.3 in the midlands or London.
Andrew very confused :?

Replace the IP number, volume name, login name and password in the code below and save the script as an application. In the system preferences pane choose accounts and drag the script to ‘Startup items’. Voila!

on run
try
mount volume “afp://169.254.132.68/Macintosh HD” as user name “Your login name” with password “Your login password”
end try
end run

thankyou very much i will let you know if it works thx again. :slight_smile: