Controlling "System Events" of a remote machine

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#1

Hi,

I am trying to run a script over my local network that will start a screen sharing session and toggle the dock autohide on the remote machine.

I have come up with this so far, but cant get it to compile.
The remote machine is running 10.5 and the host 10.6

Could somebody point out my mistake?

Thanks in advance,

Badgio


set targetMachine to "vnc://xx:yy@zz.local"

tell application "Screen Sharing"	
	open location of machine targetMachine
end tell

tell application "System Events" of machine targetMachine
	tell dock preferences
		set autohide to true	
	end tell
end tell

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#2

Well, for one you’re using a VNC URL. That won’t work for what you’re asking for.

Remote AppleEvents require an eppc:// URL since that’s the mechanism used for sending AppleScripts over the network. VNC isn’t an issue here - you don’t need to start any kind of screen sharing session to do this.

set targetMachine to "eppc://xx:yy@zz.local"

tell application "System Events" of machine targetMachine
   tell dock preferences
       set autohide to true    
   end tell
end tell

The remote machine will need to have Remote Apple Events enabled in is Sharing preferences in order for this to work.

#3

Thanks for the reply, however I am still unable to run or compile the script.

I get the following Syntax Error: Expected end of line but found application constant or consideration, with ‘preferences’ being highlighted.

This autohide script I got from this thread http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=24002

Any thoughts?

Cheers

Badgio