Accessing Finder on an AirPort network?
Accessing Finder on an AirPort network?
- Subject: Accessing Finder on an AirPort network?
- From: david craig <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 01:07:34 -0600 (CST)
My wife's Christmas present is a new iBook with an AirPort card and an
AirPort Base Station. (Darn cool, I might add.) The base station is
connected to our ethernet hub, along with the printer and the other
computers in the house. I used the AirPort Admin tool to let the
AirPort base station act as an "AirPort to Ethernet bridge". The iBook
can see the printer fine, and I can mount the iBook as a File Server
using the Chooser, and interact with it just fine.
I had a set of simple scripts to control some functions of other
computers on our home network -- shut down, restart, turning file
sharing on and off -- that sort of thing -- that work fine with the
machines directly connected to the ethernet. I made copies that I'm
trying to get working with the iBook now.
When I replace the name of the other computer with the name of the iBook
and "Check Syntax", Script Editor complains that it "Can't Find Remote
Machine". This, while the silly thing is actually mounted on my desktop
and is, of course, perfectly accessible.
How do I convince AppleScript to find the machine? I checked the File
Sharing CP, where it gives the IP address of the machine, and tried
"eppc://ip.addr" and "afp://ip.addr" in place of the machine's name, but
those didn't work either; same error. (I don't really know what I'm
doing, on the slim chance that I might be giving that impression. But
I've seen the eppc:// thing menioned here before, and an address of the
form afp:// appears in the File Sharing CP when I enable access via
TCP/IP, so I thought I'd give that a stab.)
David
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