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Mark Lively <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:16:00 -0400
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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 --
>
> 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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