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. >