Am 02.08.2010 um 21:58 schrieb Ken Thomases:

> They are not out of date, so there's nothing to update them about.

Well, technically you are correct, of course. But they do not deliver what I 
hope to get or expect. May I call that out of date?

> Connecting to the server is not the same as mounting a volume from it.

Yes, but again: What does Joe Average expect?

>  I can reproduce the symptoms you describe, but I also clearly see that no 
> volume is mounted just upon completing the Connect As step.  If I click on 
> one of the volumes shared by the server, it mounts, it appears on my desktop 
> (that's configureable in Finder's preferences), the entry for the server in 
> the Shared section of the sidebar gains the eject button and moves to the top 
> of the list, the volume in the list of shares served from the server gains 
> the eject icon, etc.  All of those are indications that nothing was mounted 
> before I clicked and was after.

Exactly.

> If you need something to be mounted, you can mount it yourself using 
> FSMountServerVolumeSync(). Otherwise, you can just wait for the user to 
> actually mount a volume instead of just connecting to a server.

I cannot mount myself, because I would need the users password in order to do 
so. Perhaps advising the user to click (in order to mount) is the best solution.

Anyway, thanks for your thoughts, Ken!

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Dipl.-Phys. Knut Lorenzen
<http://Knut.MacDisk.de>




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