Trying to mount a drive of a windows box

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#1

Hi… im very new to apple script. I have a background in vb, but cant figure this out…

I am trying to mount a drive off a windows box, and use the following script

mount volume “smb://squad leader:w@server ip/drive”

when i run that i get a netword file permission error… so i ran it with out the password… so that i would ahve to manually type the password in, and in the username it has SQUAD%20LEADER, so thats where my problem is… how can i get it to recognize the space between the 2 words???
thanks in advance

#2

Hi dmonitto,

Take a look at this page from Apple. If you have questions about how to put the info to use, let us know. :slight_smile:

– Rob

#3

Thanks alot… but that doesnt seem to work… that was the first thing i tried…
I put the password as squad%20leader, and it comes out as squad%25%20leader… so im very confused, could this just be an obstical that cannot be overcome in 10.2.8? Thanks

#4

I can’t test this (no SMB volumes available) but maybe it will work. Modify the first three lines to suit your needs.

set usr to "squad leader" -- user name
set pwd to "w" -- password
set ip_ to "server ip/drive"

set url_ to "smb://" & my encode_text(usr, false, false) & ":" & pwd & "@" & ip_
mount volume url_

on encode_text(this_text, encode_URL_A, encode_URL_B)
	set the standard_characters to ¬
		"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789"
	set the URL_A_chars to "$+!'/?;&@=#%><{}[]"~`^\|*"
	set the URL_B_chars to ".-_:"
	set the acceptable_characters to the standard_characters
	if encode_URL_A is false then ¬
		set the acceptable_characters to ¬
			the acceptable_characters & the URL_A_chars
	if encode_URL_B is false then ¬
		set the acceptable_characters to ¬
			the acceptable_characters & the URL_B_chars
	set the encoded_text to ""
	repeat with this_char in this_text
		if this_char is in the acceptable_characters then
			set the encoded_text to ¬
				(the encoded_text & this_char)
		else
			set the encoded_text to ¬
				(the encoded_text & encode_char(this_char)) as string
		end if
	end repeat
	return the encoded_text
end encode_text

on encode_char(this_char)
	set the ASCII_num to (the ASCII number this_char)
	set the hex_list to ¬
		{"0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", ¬
			"9", "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F"}
	set x to item ((ASCII_num div 16) + 1) of the hex_list
	set y to item ((ASCII_num mod 16) + 1) of the hex_list
	return ("%" & x & y) as string
end encode_char

– Rob