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tlarkin · ‎03-26-2009

Ok, I am about to get a few more gray hairs over this. According the
man pages and everything I google I am doing this right but it is not
working.

If I mount the share via the finder it works just fine, no issues. If I
mount it via apple script it works to an extend, if I mount it via
mount_afp no dice.

here is my apple script

tell application "finder"

mount volume "afp://username:password@x.x.x.x:548"

end tell

This works but there are three share points on this server, and if I add
the share point it, it doesn't work, says server does not exist or spits
out a syntax error. Now if I could get this to work

tell application "finder"

mount volume "afp://user:password@x.x.x.x:548/sharepoint"

end tell

I would be golden!

Any advice? Any Novell wizards around here? Also, how well does casper
fair with Apple scripts I normally don't use them?

Thanks,

Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org
blackberry: 913-449-7589
office: 913-627-0351

tlarkin · ‎03-05-2009

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http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3054602&sliceId=1
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And then to:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story071028025409750&mode=print
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http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story071028025409750&mode=print
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You can run:
$ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_allow" -bool
YES
$ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_warn" -bool
YES

This is for older Novell servers that donâ€™t have Universal passwords set
up on them (they really should, but I doubt I need to tell you that).

For then doing the mounts, we have a set of scripts (I assume this is
NWEA?) that we use to do the mounts and loads of tests. If this is the
case, I can send them along off-list, let me know. Or, for opening
single apps that require a mount point, I use script editor to write an
app and then save it as an app bundle so we can brand it and use it. Below is sample code for this.

if

(list disks) does not contain "VolumeName" then --test to see if volume is already mounted then tell application "Finder" mount volume "afp://user:password@server.domain.org/VolumeName" end tell
end if
--hide volume from desktops so it doesnâ€™t get messed with
do shell script "/usr/bin/SetFile -a V /Volumes/VolumeName"
do shell script "killall Finder"
tell application "System Events" to delay 2
tell application "Finder" open file "Applications:MyApp" of startup disk
end tell

Note in the above that the /usr/bin/SetFile file is from the developer
tools and is used to hide the volume from the desktop. It works much
like the jamf mount â€“hidden command but this doesnâ€™t seem to hide it
from finder like the jamf one does (which changed in 6) so that apps can
still see the volume. We use this to launch our apps needing a volume,
but donâ€™t use it for testing.

-John

On 3/20/09 11:26 AM, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:

I thought about that, but I don't want all 6,000 clients accessing the
share at once and I also don't want it permanently mounted. In my
experience with this testing app from last year is that it works best if
you stagger connections and testing sessions to say, no more than 400
clients at one time.

I am going to try to invoke apple script from the command line like
suggested and see if it makes a difference.

Thanks for everyone's input and help, it is appreciated.

tom

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I haven't tried this against Novell, but this is an AS that I used at my
prior employer for keeping a server volume mounted on a Mass Transit
server. Just edit the the variables:

--remember this info
property TimeToSleep : 900 -- How many seconds until we check again
property MyIP : "10.49.50.2"
property ServerList : {"WIP", "MASSTRANSIT"}
property MyUser : "user"
property MyPassword : "password"

--start work on double-click
on run tell application "Finder" to tell me to idle
end run

--as server watcher
on idle

--start work on double-click tell application "Finder"

--look for mounted volumes repeat with MyVolume in ServerList try set test to disk (MyVolume) as alias on error with timeout of 15 seconds try --mount by TCP/IP mount volume "afp://" & MyUser & ":" & MyPassword &
"@" & MyIP & "/" & MyVolume & "/" end try end timeout end try end repeat

end tell try tell application "Mass Transit" to activate end try return TimeToSleep -- sleep time in seconds

end idle

Hope that helps.

Steve Wood
Director of IT
swood at integerdallas.com

The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201
T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475

Report Inappropriate Content · ‎03-26-2009

I seem to have luck using this in applescript:

mount volume 'afp://servername/sharepoint' as user name 'myusername' with
password 'mypassword'

Also, just in case you miss it only because I have in the past, the
sharepoint name is case sensitive.

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Promedia Technology Services, Inc.
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Fax: 973.253.5601

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You can run:
$ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_allow" -bool YES
$ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_warn" -bool YES

This is for older Novell servers that don=B9t have Universal passwords set up
on them (they really should, but I doubt I need to tell you that).

For then doing the mounts, we have a set of scripts (I assume this is NWEA?
)
that we use to do the mounts and loads of tests. =A0If this is the case, I ca
n
send them along off-list, let me know. =A0Or, for opening single apps that
require a mount point, I use script editor to write an app and then save it
as an app bundle so we can brand it and use it. =A0Below is sample code for
this.

if

(list disks) does not contain "VolumeName" then
=A0=A0=A0--test to see if volume is already mounted then
=A0=A0=A0tell application "Finder"
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0mount volume "afp://user:password@server.domain.org/VolumeName"
=A0=A0=A0end tell
end if
--hide volume from desktops so it doesn=B9t get messed with
do shell script "/usr/bin/SetFile -a V /Volumes/VolumeName"
do shell script "killall Finder"
tell application "System Events" to delay 2
tell application "Finder"
=A0=A0=A0open file "Applications:MyApp" of startup disk
end tell

Note in the above that the /usr/bin/SetFile file is from the developer
tools and is used to hide the volume from the desktop. =A0It works much like
the jamf mount=A0=ADhidden command but this doesn=B9t seem to hide it from finder
like the jamf one does (which changed in 6) so that apps can still see the
volume. =A0We use this to launch our apps needing a volume, but don=B9t use it
for testing.

-John

On 3/20/09 11:26 AM, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:

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You can run: 
$ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_allow" -bool YES 
$ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_warn" -bool YES 
 
This is for older Novell servers that don’t have Universal passwords set up on them (they really should, but I doubt I need to tell you that). 
For then doing the mounts, we have a set of scripts (I assume this is NWEA?
) that we use to do the mounts and loads of tests. =A0If this is the case, I c
an send them along off-list, let me know. =A0Or, for opening single apps that require a mount point, I use script editor to write an app and then save it as an app bundle so we can brand it and use it. =A0Below is sample code for th
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-John 
 
 
On 3/20/09 11:26 AM, "Thomas Larkin" <<a href"tlarki at kckps.or
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 >>> Miles Leacy <<a href"miles.leacy at themacadmin.com">mi
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Are you using Open Directory? You can set a share as a login item via Workg
roup Manager. I'm not sure of the applicable MCX settings off the top of my head, but if WGM can do it, you can push the MCX via a dscl script. 
 
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 Still no dice. The problem I think I am having is that these shares a
re on old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but heck if I know what v
ersion of AFP it is. I do know that it is old enough that it does not suppor
t encrypted passwords. If I recall you need to have universal passwords enab
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ms, which it is running an older DNS for these file shares. At this point in time I am almost considering hosting the database file on one of my Mac ser
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 I just want to create a generic account, grant it access to this one particular file on a network share so the application can write data to the database file. Once the file share is mounted the application launches and t
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 It works if I do it manually, no problem. I however, want to have the end user click one self service policy and have all the work done for them under the hood. That way they just click and it works.    &nb
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Thomas Larkin 
TIS Department 
KCKPS USD500 
<a href"tlarki at kckps.org">tlarki at kckps.org</a> 
blackberry: 913-449-7589 
office: 913-627-0351 
 
 
 
 
 
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need advice on self service mount points, and applaunching