you can ssh into the machine in question and use osascript (man osascript for instructs) to call mount_smbfs (man mount_smbfs for instructs)...this can all be saved in a shell script file and poked from the remote machine. -Cole McDonald On Aug 15, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Stockly, Ed wrote: > Hi, > > I need very dependable, bullet proof methods for doing two things: > > Triggering an appleScript on a mac remotely over the internet and > mounting a networked SMB volume via an appleScript. > > In both cases do shell scripts would be fine. > > Any suggestions? > > ES >