[Ti] Panther network functionality

[Chris Olson]

On Nov 21, 2003, at 10:25 PM, Barry Lyden wrote:

> I would think that you could also use AppleScript to mount a series of 
> drives and set the script to run automatically at login time. Does 
> anyone have experience doing this?

I do lots of things with AppleScript, but you don't need AppleScript to 
do this.

Once you have a share mounted, you can simply drag it to the Dock, or 
to the "startup items" section in the System Prefs under your account 
information.  It will then let you either single click it to mount from 
the Dock, or auto-mount on login.

If you're more technically inclined and like to fiddle with things:
Open your Script Editor (found in /Applications/Apple Script/) and cut 
and past the following into it:

tell application "Finder"
	mount volume "smb://username:password@192.168.1.1/share name"
end tell

replacing username, password, ip address, and share name specific for 
what you use. Save this script as an application in the menu (File -> 
Save As ->) and in the dialog select 'Application' for file format, and 
enter the desired name of your scripted application.  Double clicking 
the icon for this script will mount the server. or if you want it to be 
automatic, add the script to your System Preferences - > Accounts -> 
Startup Items tab. You can add as many mount lines for different 
servers in that script as you want. When you log on it will 
automatically mount your network servers/shares in Finder. If one is 
not available when you log on the Script will display an error and halt 
execution, so I recommend making a separate script for each server or 
share you want to auto-mount.
--
Chris