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Re: Volume mount applescript - ruminations of dubious value

Thanks Derek. Perhaps I should have been clearer. It is a ten client
room used for special purposes (language learning), the last OS 9 room.
Both the clients and the server use OS 9.2, with the included Apple file
sharing, which is limited to 10 simultaneous connections. What is
strange is that the script seems to allow only 9. There are two shared
volumes on the server. One is the disk image used by assimilator, but
since we assimilate on startup that is never mounted at the same time as
the student shared files volume. It does seem that the other shared
volume, or perhaps the server itself is being treated as a connection
when using this script. Still looking for a workaround,

Derek Roff wrote:

> It seems likely that the problem stems from the 10-connection limit
> with AppleShare. Since Jim can connect the 10th client via Chooser, I
> speculate that there is some difference between Chooser and the way
> the AppleScript Mount command is interpreted. Unfortunately, I don't
> have anything but lame guesses about what or why. My least irrational
> guess, is that the volume mounted on the server is counted as one
> connection, when you use the mount command. Anyone have any other ideas?
>
> I don't remember if the Chooser is scriptable, but if it is, it might
> be interesting to try a script that connects via the Chooser, instead
> of your mount volume command. Perhaps there are other scriptable
> connection methods as well.
>
> When we upgraded our server to AppleShare IP 6.3, which requires OS
> 9.1 or higher to run, we faced the same problem with Keychain
> preventing automatic connections. Being clueless, it tooks me months
> to find a solution (during which we went back to OS 8.x and AppleShare
> 6.1, I believe). I found out that downgrading the AppleShare client to
> version 3.8.3 (on the client machines) would allow the automatic,
> Keychain-free, server connections that we wanted and had always
> enjoyed under previous OS and AppleShare Server versions.
>
> This is the system that we run now, in our remaining OS 9 lab. All the
> 24 client machines connect to the ASIP 6.3 server on startup, based on
> the Chooser check-boxes- the same approach which we had used up until
> the server went to OS 9.x.
>
> I don't know if that could work for Jim, since it sounds like he
> doesn't have the ASIP piece of our puzzle. It might be worth a try.
>
> Derek
>
> --On Tuesday, April 27, 2004 8:36 PM +0900 Jim Sick
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I've been using the following applescript in the startup folder to
>> automount a server from OS 9, avoiding the unlock keychain dialog,
>> so users needn't enter a username and password.
>>
>> mount volume afp://username:email@hidden.2/volumename
>>
>> All works fine except for the baffling fact that the script will
>> only mount 9 clients. There are ten clients in the room, and the
>> last one to boot always returns an error message. The same last
>> client can then be mounted manually from the chooser. Any ideas on
>> this?
>>
>> Jim Sick
>> Obirin University
>> Tokyo, Japan
>
>
>
>
> Derek Roff
> Language Learning Center, MSC03-2100
> Ortega Hall Rm 129, 1 University of New Mexico
> Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
> 505/277-7368, fax 505/277-3885
> Internet: email@hidden
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 >Volume mount applescript (From: Jim Sick <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Volume mount applescript - ruminations of dubious value (From: Derek Roff <email@hidden>)



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