[X4U] Argh!!! Classic Appletalk Shares

[Doug McNutt]

At 19:43 -0700 4/30/05, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>One of my primary reasons for not moving to Mac OS X with V10.0 was that I needed to access data on classic Appletalk Shares.  Then in either 10.1 or 10.2 they added that capability back in.  Well, it looks like they've removed it again

I still use a Mac SE/30 running OS 7.5.3 in Panther.

The procedure is to write a shell script that exercises the mount_afp system tool. The CLI isn't too horrible and I call it from a one-line AppleScript APPL that I put into my startup items. About the only thing that isn't so obvious is that you have to create a directory - mkdir - in /Volumes/ before you can use it as a mount point. man mount_afp in Terminal or a BBEdit worksheet for more.

I sure hope it will still work tomorrow after I install Wombat.

As for VMS, There is also mount_ftp but there are problems with write access that way.

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