Hi All…
Just working on something, and not sure if i am going the right way about it.
Problem: Macs with 10.4.x or less have issues mounting a samba share that have more than a few terrabytes available. It’s fixed in 10.5, but we’ve found we can get around it on 10.4.x or less using command line mount_smbfs.
So what i want to do is make it easy for the end user to double click an app, it asks for username and password, and runs the mount_smbfs command.
Using the built in applescript what i have so far is this:
set varpath to "/Users/testuser/Desktop/mountpoint"
set iusername to text returned of (display dialog "Enter username" with title "Login..." default answer "" butoons {"Continue..."} default button 1)
set ipassword to text returned of (display dialog "Enter password" with title "Password..." default answer "" butoons {"Continue..."} default button 1 with hidden answer)
do shell script "mount_smbfs //" & iusername & ":" & ipassword & "@<smbshare.address.goes.here/share> " & varpath
Which works… on 10.4.x… but on 10.3.x the textbox actually displays the password, so the hidden answer attribute doesn’t work.
How can i get this to work on all 10.x machines?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.