[Casper] need advice on self service mount points, andapplaunching

[Thomas Larkin]

OK, it seems that it is working now for some strange reason.  I had sent
the Novell admins a few emails and it works, so maybe they did
something. 

for the record this is how I do it 

tell application "finder" 

mount volume "afp://user:password@fs106.kckps.k12.ks.us/FS106.VOL2" 

end tell 

I just need now to verify if it is mounted and then have it launch my
application and I am done, any pointers on that.  I have no freaking
clue why mount_afp was such a pain and it still won't work. 

thanks

>>> Steve Wood <swood at integerdallas.com> 03/26/09 1:34 PM >>>
The only difference I saw between what you were doing and what I was
doing in my scripts was the use of 548 in yours. You were specifically
calling out the AFP port number in yours. Have you tried it without
that?


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2009/3/26 Thomas Larkin 
<tlarki at kckps.org> 




What is the difference between yours and mine, which is: 


tell application "finder" 


mount volume "afp://user:password@x.x.x.x/sharepoint" 


end tell 


I mean isn't it essentially the same thing?

>>> Yaniv Lugassy <ylugassy at promedianj.com> 03/26/09 1:21 PM >>>



I seem to have luck using this in applescript:

mount volume “afp://servername/sharepoint” as user name “myusername”
with password “mypassword”

Also, just in case you miss it only because I have in the past, the
sharepoint name is case sensitive.



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From: Thomas Larkin <tlarki at kckps.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:46:36 -0500
To: John Wetter <john_wetter at hopkins.k12.mn.us>, Casper List
<Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and
applaunching




Ok, I am about to get a few more gray hairs over this. According the man
pages and everything I google I am doing this right but it is not
working. 






If I mount the share via the finder it works just fine, no issues. If I
mount it via apple script it works to an extend, if I mount it via
mount_afp no dice. 






here is my apple script 






tell application "finder" 






mount volume "afp://username:password@x.x.x.x:548 

<mailto:afp://username:password@x.x.x.x:548> " 






end tell 






This works but there are three share points on this server, and if I add
the share point it, it doesn't work, says server does not exist or spits
out a syntax error. Now if I could get this to work 






tell application "finder" 






mount volume "afp://user:password@x.x.x.x:548/sharepoint 

<mailto:afp://user:password@x.x.x.x:548/sharepoint> " 






end tell 






I would be golden! 






Any advice? Any Novell wizards around here? Also, how well does casper
fair with Apple scripts I normally don't use them? 






Thanks,



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>>> John Wetter <john_wetter at hopkins.k12.mn.us> 03/20/09 12:28 PM >>>




Tom,