THAT WORKS!

Except I had to take off the ".app" extension. If I left that on, it  
caused Script Editor the crash.

Now I can have the server delegate tasks to other machines on the  
network for nightly backups. I can install the applet on each machine  
and, late at night, the server will launch it, remotely, causing each  
machines user files to be saved as a disk image on the server.

Thanks,

Chuck
P.S. Sheesh, this is not as intuitive as I think AppleScripting  
should be.

On Jan 20, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Mark Lively wrote:

> On Jan 20, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Chuck Pelto wrote:
>
>> set thisMachine to "eppc://MyName:[log in to unmask]"
>>
>> tell application "Make DMGs" of machine thisMachine to open file  
>> "Make DMGs" of folder "Applications" of startup disk
>
> Got that result too.
>
> It doesn't like the machine being a variable like that.
>
> What I got to work is.
>
>
> set machineList to {application "Finder" of machine "eppc:// 
> lively:[log in to unmask]"}
> repeat with thisMachine in machineList
> 	using terms from application "Finder"
> 		tell thisMachine
> 			open file "iTunes.app" of folder "Applications" of startup disk
> 		end tell
> 	end using terms from
> end repeat
>
> Add more machines to the list as needed.  Also note that I am  
> telling Finder to open the application.
>
> -Mark
> I don't work.  The computers work.  I just tell them how to do it.
>