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Re: Mount volume multiple appletalk zones (Tiger)
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Re: Mount volume multiple appletalk zones (Tiger)


  • Subject: Re: Mount volume multiple appletalk zones (Tiger)
  • From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:07:41 -0700

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:11:23 -0500, Tom Brice <email@hidden> said:
>I would like to mount afp volumes in an appletalk zone that is different
>than the zone the client machine is in.  In Panther this worked:
>mount volume volumeName on server serverName in AppleTalk zone zoneName as
>user name userName
>
>This seems to be broken in Tiger so I changed into use an "afp://" URL:
>set afpURL to ("afp://" & serverName & ":" & zoneName & "/" & volumeName) as
>text
>mount volume afpURL as user name userName
>
>And this pops up a "Connect to Server" dialog box prompting for a "Server
>address" to be input.  This dialog only appears if I add the ":" & zoneName
>part to the URL, otherwise I get an error:
>set afpURL to ("afp://" & serverName & "/" & volumeName) as text
>mount volume afpURL as user name userName
>    --> Disk volumeName wasn't found.
>
>Strangely enough an IP address works:

AppleTalk is gone in Tiger, so IP is the only option. The concept "in
another appletalk zone" should be officially meaningless. If it still works
in mount_afp, I don't know why! :) m.

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