On Aug 2, 2004, at 02:06 pm, Tom W. wrote:
Under OS 9, I will access another user's shared folder, and then create an alias for it. I drag the alias to my desktop, for example, and then after that, I don't have to go to chooser, appleshare, etc. etc. I just double click on the alias and the dialogue box to log into the other user's computer comes up. Trying to remember here (been a while) whether this refused to work at all when using X, or just unreliably. When I dragged the alias (from the OS9 computer) across to my (OS X) computer, and for eg. , stuck it on my desktop for easy accessibility, it would either not work at all, or would work the first time, but stop after that. Definitely, on later attempts to access the alias on the X computer, it would tell me the alias wasn't valid, as if you'd moved the original folder or deleted it.
Thanks for any help. I would love to get back on X at work. I feel crippled, using X at home and 9 at work, but I have to take work from multiple users several times a day, so this is an important feature for me.
One other thing, I believe that it would work better from folders that were on the server than it did from folders on another user's computer.
There are some things in OS X's networking suite that still do not work properly. My suggestion is you construct an AppleScript to mount the volume(s) in OS X then save it as an executable and bung that in your Startup Items. If the shares exist it will mount them and/or ask for a password, and if they don't it'll probably say so after waiting a few seconds. Either that or look into how to set shares to mount at boot time - I'm not aware of how it works in OS X.
I see no other easy way around the issue - I have tried having networked folders in the sidebar of the 10.3 Finder windows but this was also somewhat intermittent. Sometimes it mounted the drive, sometimes it just spat it's dummy out and didn't mount the share and thus broke the alias permanently. However. If you follow my methodology above and mount the shares at boot time the alias will never be broken as it will always be present *before* you try to use it.
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