Opening Shared Folder on another machine.

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#1

Having a serious senior moment… :frowning:

My laptop shows up in the sidebar of any Finder window on my dual-core G5 machine whether it’s awake or dozing. By clicking on that icon, as you all know, a group of shared folders appear automagically. Clicking on any of them mounts it on my G5 desktop – no passwords, no IP address, etc.

Now the burning question: how do I get that to happen from an AppleScript. I have searched, but find solutions like mount “afp://user:pw@IPAddress”, which works, of course, but I’m looking for something more generic.

#2

Hello Adam,

the most generic way is to use the Bonjour name (e.g. myServer.local) instead of the IP address and take the username / password with keychain scripting.
Bonjour is quite far away from AppleScript :wink:

#3

Thanks, Stefan;

Glad to hear that Bonjour is “far away from AppleScript” – I thought I was just missing something, didn’t realize that “mount” understood the Bonjour address.