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 >