Hi I am very new Automator and applescripting. This is kind of an involved question, so I will start out with the short version and then do some explaining later on down the line.
Short version: I need an applescript to put at the beginning of an Automator app to check if a specific ad hoc network exists (ePan) and if it does, I want to select it and have the Automator app end, and if it doesn’t exist then continue to create it.
Long version: I used Automator to create an app that creates an ad hoc network with a specific name, “ePan”. Then I used sleepwatcher to make a script for executing the app on start up and wake up. For the most part it’s all working well, but there’s one anomaly I can’t figure out. The problem is that sometimes when the computer goes to sleep, or even shuts down, the ad hoc network is not removed from the list of networks, so upon re-execution of the script there’s a failure of “This network already exists.” And the Automator app never finishes.
The computer that is creating the ad hoc network is a mac mini running snow leapord. It has no screen, mouse, or keyboard attached to it in the field. I am using VNC to connect my iPad to the Mac Mini’s ad hoc network and screen share. This works great, except that I can’t always rely on the Mac Mini to get the ad hoc network set up.
Now, you might say, well if you are getting the error that the network already exists, then just connect to it from the iPad and use VCN to shut the app down via the screen share. There’s the rub. The “existing network” doesn’t actually exist. At least, it’s not available to me on the iPad.
Any ideas???
