Mounting Network Volumes

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Ray_Barber July 31, 2003, 3:00am #1

Hi
I’m trying to use a script to mount a remote OS 9 Volume from OS X. I won’t post the whole script, but when I try to use this line

mount volume “afp://username:password@192.168.1.xxx/Preflight In/”

I get the following error

“Exection Error: An error of type -1 has occurred”

The same script (different IP address) works fine opening OS X volume from OS X. I thought it might be the space in the volume name but removing that didn’t help. Also, password is under 8 characters long
Thanks in advance!!

Rob July 31, 2003, 4:27am #2

Try this. It works for me mounting OS 9.1 volumes from OS X 10.2.6.

mount volume "afp://192.168.1.xxx/Preflight In" as user name "name" with password "pwd"

Ray_Barber July 31, 2003, 6:40am #3

hmmmm… still getting the same error…

Rob July 31, 2003, 7:03am #4

Try this. It works for me mounting OS 9.1 volumes from OS X 10.2.6.
mount volume "afp://192.168.1.xxx/Preflight In" as user name "name" with password "pwd"
hmmmm… still getting the same error…

Can you mount a volume on the OS 9 box via other methods?

Rob July 31, 2003, 8:03pm #5

Tim Connor has just posted a handler (Mount Required Volumes (Mac OS X)) which might be useful. I just tested it here and it allowed me to mount a OS 9 volume from OS X.

– Rob