Re: Accessing shared PC folders
Re: Accessing shared PC folders
- Subject: Re: Accessing shared PC folders
- From: MrPoodle <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:09:01 -0400
Thank you to:
Itai Rom & Jamie Lee
Itai's suggestion solved the problem in a way that I can use right
now. I tried it already, and my Automator works fine.
Jamie's suggestion will be a great help when I try to refine my
knowledge using Apple documentation to learn how to use Applescript.
Again thank you both,
Mr Poodle
On Jul 28, 2008, at 3:50 PM, Itai Rom wrote:
You should able to double-click the URL in Get Specified Servers and
enter a username and password in a format like this:
smb://user:pass@portapoodle/MTbird/
If you just want guest access, with no password, then this might
work: smb://guest@portapoodle/MTbird/
That's working for me with AFP shares.
-Itai
On Jul 28, 2008, at 10:17 AM, MrPoodle wrote:
Hi,
I'm a retired systems and applications programer that hasn't
programed in about 7 years. I thought that it might be a nice
hobby to create some Automator scripts for myself, and if that goes
well create some actions using Applescript that I could post as
Freeware.
I tried this question on the Automator forum, but I guess I need to
go up the expertise chain a notch or two.
Simple task:
use time machine to back up my wife's PC Tbird mail, and
Documents. The PC is lightly used.
Couldn't find a way to have shared folders from PC backed up by
Time machine, so
development plan is:
Schedule a time in iCal to run an Automator plugin that will copy
the two directory trees to my imac boot disk once a day, Then,
let Time machine do it's normal thing.
Most of my problems are part of the learning curve, and I can work
around, but here is the big problem. I can't run the plugin
unattended because it insists on asking for a user/password. I
notice that finder can figure out to use "guest" without asking,
but my plugin can't figure it out. I would think that there is a
way of just sending the "Guest" as a parameter attached to the Get
Specified Servers string.
Like: smb://portapoodle/MTbird/"Guest" but I tried a bunch of
strings that didn't work.
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