[X4U] Home Networking Questions ( Static IP verses DHCP)

[revDAVE]

On 7/11/04 10:45 AM, "revDAVE" <coolcat at hostalive.com> wrote:

> Thank you Eddie for this great suggestion.
> 
> Now - I would like to go one step further.  Basically would like to store on
> my desktop some aliases or the equivalent of aliases as you have described
> above, of actual files and folders on other networked drives.
> 
> In the past, I have opened a network drive and created a normal Macintosh
> alias from a file or folder and put it on my current desktop.  As far as
> using Panther 10.3.2, this is been somewhat problematic.  Often it does not
> work correctly at a later date - giving the error " the alias cannot be
> opened, because the original item cannot be found.  " generally, this is
> true because the drive is not mounted at the time...
> 
> So maybe the Mac alias feature doesn't work correctly for this purpose.  It
> would seem as though your idea above works better as it seems to create some
> kind of special " Network alias " instead.  BTW: What is this special type
> called? 
> 
> So the best of all worlds would be to create one of these " special network
> aliases " and have it extend all the  way to the actual folder/file path.
> 
> - something like:
> 
> afp://username:password@Computer-Name.local/folder1/folder2/file1
> 
> Q: is anything like this possible?

I Found this out...

You can do this!

afp://username:password@Computer-Name.local/folder1/folder2/file1

Here's how to get into os9...

afp:/at/username:password at Computer-Name.local


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Thanks - RevDave
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