Specifying volumes over the network
Specifying volumes over the network
- Subject: Specifying volumes over the network
- From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:58:45 +1000
(this question feels silly because I can see an immediate solution -
change all the volume names - but it is causing a problem at present.)
On a small network with a few iMacs hooked together on an
ether-network the startup disks are called "Macintosh HD" by default.
Sometimes the users have turned off file-sharing by accident or
corrupted preferences, etc. Then, without speaking to someone who
knows about these things they have conspired together to restart
file-sharing, usually while their startup disk is selected.
Consequently, anyone who shares information with them has several
"Macintosh HD"s on their desktop. Applescripts which use "choose
folder()" will fail when trying to copy "Macintosh HD:Desktop
Folder:molotov.pdf" on the startup disk to "Macintosh
HD:Documents:Incendiary:How To:" which is a volume on the network. It
fails because it's searching the startup disk for a folder thats on a
networked volume (reason -1728, can't locate the specified object).
How do I get enough information to distinguish the mounted volumes if
they have the same name?
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Malcolm Fitzgerald email@hidden
Database Manager
http://www.asauthors.org
The Australian Society of Authors ph: 02 93180877 fax: 02 93180530
whose drives are called:
Quattro (250MB)
Little Disk (2GB - in the same machine as Quattro)
Faulkner (, William)
Soren (Kierkegaard)
Stiller (from Max Frisch's "I'm not Stiller" - this drive makes a lot of noise)
HaeHae (the iMac that the cat sits on - Maori word, "nervous")
Coconut (the white iBook)
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