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I have an open bug on this. Mount Volume is squirrelly in 10.4.
Sometimes it mounts but doesn't return a value. Sometimes it
errors. Sometimes it works.
On Apr 10, 2007, at 12:51 PM, RJay Hansen wrote:
> I've written some simple little scripts for our Mac workstations to
> mount volumes from our Xserve i.e. --
>
> mount volume "afp://XX.X.XX.XXX/volumeName" as user name "username"
> with password "" (x's represent IP address)
>
> I've also used --
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> mount volume "afp://username:[log in to unmask]"
>
> I've also run these inside a Finder "tell", but apparently isn't
> necessary and doesn't make a difference in the following behavior.
>
> These are put in the user's script folder in their Library and run
> from the Scripts menu. All has worked fine until upgrading to 10.4
> recently. Now, most of the time we have to run the script twice
> before it mounts the volume in question. The first time it's run,
> the machine acts like it's running the script but the volume
> doesn't mount and it generates no error messages. Running it again
> mounts the volume.
>
> But this doesn't happen every time you run one of these. Sometimes
> it mounts the volume the first time you run the script. Also, it
> always works with the first volume you mount... in other words, if
> you have no server volumes mounted at all, the first script you run
> mounts that volume fine, but any subsequent scripts you run to
> mount other volumes usually fail on the first run.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what may be causing this? All this is
> happening on OS X 10.4.8 using G4s and G5s.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
>
> RJay
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