changing aliases, no passwords, no images, oh my!

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2000

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 34786
interpreted = N
texte = ok, in my freaky weird little setup, I have a Linux server whose whole jobin life is to serve images for real estate.and I have a iMac development server whose primary job in life is to get newdata everyday and sort it so webcat can understand it.the new data gets uploaded to me everyday by FTP and has to be to the samemachine, (so I can't have data go to dev and images to the image server) butI found the Mac too slow to sort the imagery, so I run rumpus on dev and itsaves the data locally and the images to an alias of a mounted drive on theimage server.The problems I am having are:1. The alias to the images folder keeps getting changed. instead ofpointing to the incoming_images folder, it points at a folder on the Linuxbox called TheVolumeSettingsFolder (both folders are in the user's rootdir)2. My applescript in the dev machine tries to mount the linux HD when itruns, however on first run, the Finder pops up a dialog for the password.It refuses to allow me to enter a saved password. (I've seen this before,on NT, but I have no idea how to make netatalk allow a saved password.)This script is the one that runs everytime webcatalog involces the mergepage:tell application Finder mount volume www on server NineWire-www as user name myname withpassword myassword mount volume nw on server imagine as user name nw with passwordthepassend tellwww gets mounted fine every time, but nw pops a paswd dialog. Any ideas? I don't know if the folder alias problem is caused byapplescript, rumpus, webstar, webcatalog, the finder or Linux.TIA-Aaron-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

changing aliases, no passwords, no images, oh my! (Aaron Lynch 2000)

ok, in my freaky weird little setup, I have a Linux server whose whole jobin life is to serve images for real estate.and I have a iMac development server whose primary job in life is to get newdata everyday and sort it so webcat can understand it.the new data gets uploaded to me everyday by FTP and has to be to the samemachine, (so I can't have data go to dev and images to the image server) butI found the Mac too slow to sort the imagery, so I run rumpus on dev and itsaves the data locally and the images to an alias of a mounted drive on theimage server.The problems I am having are:1. The alias to the images folder keeps getting changed. instead ofpointing to the incoming_images folder, it points at a folder on the Linuxbox called TheVolumeSettingsFolder (both folders are in the user's rootdir)2. My applescript in the dev machine tries to mount the linux HD when itruns, however on first run, the Finder pops up a dialog for the password.It refuses to allow me to enter a saved password. (I've seen this before,on NT, but I have no idea how to make netatalk allow a saved password.)This script is the one that runs everytime webcatalog involces the mergepage:tell application Finder mount volume www on server NineWire-www as user name myname withpassword myassword mount volume nw on server imagine as user name nw with passwordthepassend tellwww gets mounted fine every time, but nw pops a paswd dialog. Any ideas? I don't know if the folder alias problem is caused byapplescript, rumpus, webstar, webcatalog, the finder or Linux.TIA-Aaron-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Aaron Lynch

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