AppleScript: The Definitive Guide

Name

mount volume — AppleShare

Description

Mounts an AppleShare volume (i.e., a machine where Personal File Sharing is turned on). The machine is specified as an afp URL; to avoid the dialog for choosing a particular volume, add the volume name as a second path element. Parameters can be used to avoid the username-password dialog (or you can include the username and password as part of the URL).

Examples

set s to choose URL showing File servers
mount volume s as user name "mattneub" with password "teehee"
mount volume "afp://little-white-duck.local" -- avoids no dialogs
mount volume "afp://little-white-duck.local/OmniumGatherum" ¬
        as user name "matt neuburg" with password "teehee" -- avoids all dialogs

If the machine is serving via AppleTalk (rather than TCP/IP), and if you have AppleTalk turned on in Mac OS X, you can mount the machine via AppleTalk using an AppleTalk URL, which looks, for example, like this: mount volume "afp:/at/LittleWhiteDuck“. Note that you must use a name; the IP number doesn’t apply here. You can specify volume, username, and password just as for a TCP/IP afp URL. Windows servers can be mounted using an smb URL.