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Mac Forum / General / Networking / December 2005Automatically Re-Mount a File Server
I have a Mac OS 8.6 machine that I connect to a server over TCP/IP. There are times when the connected server will disconnect. Is there a program out there, or a way for me to automatically re-mount that server if the connection goes down, without rebooting the machine? I know in earlier OS versions there was an extension called remounter. I never used it though, and I don't think it is included with OS 8.6. Thanks for any help you can offer me. Jeff Entity Jeff Grossman spoke thus: > I have a Mac OS 8.6 machine that I connect to a server over TCP/IP. Applescript: mount volume "afp://MachineName.local" as user name "Username" with password "password" Not sure if this will work on OS 8 but it's worth a try. -- Gnarlie > Entity Jeff Grossman spoke thus: > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Not sure if this will work on OS 8 but it's worth a try. But, what happens if the server gets disconnected, the applescript needs to be run again to mount the volume. I want something unattended to re-mount the file server. I already have the file server set up to automatically connect at startup. But, if it disconnects while the machine is running, I need to to reconnect automatically as soon as possible. Is anything like what I describe available or possible? Jeff Entity Jeff Grossman spoke thus: > But, what happens if the server gets disconnected, the applescript needs > to be run again to mount the volume. I want something unattended to > re-mount the file server. In that case you would say: "GNARLODIOUS" is in (list disks) if the result is false then mount volume "afp://MachineName.local" as user name "Username" with password "password" end if I think you would need to save it as an Application or Cronnix will open it in Script Editor. I forget. You would then run this script every 5 or 10 minutes from Cronnix: http://abstracture.de/projects-en/cronnix For an example of how to configure Cronnix to run an Applescript: http://Gnarlodious.com/Apple/AppleScript/ConfigureCronnix.png -- Gnarlie's Applescript page: http://Gnarlodious.com/Apple/AppleScript/ > Entity Jeff Grossman spoke thus: > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > password "password" > end if on idle if "DISKNAME" is not in (list disks) then mount volume "afp://hostname/sharename" as user name "username" with password "password" end if return 60 end idle Save as an application. Checks whether the server is connected every 60 seconds. Change the "return 60" line for longer or shorter interval as desired.  SignatureJerry Kindall, Seattle, WA <http://www.jerrykindall.com/> Send only plain text messages under 32K to the Reply-To address. This mailbox is filtered aggressively to thwart spam and viruses. Entity Jerry Kindall uttered this profundity: >>> I want something unattended to >>> re-mount the file server. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > 60 seconds. Change the "return 60" line for longer or shorter interval > as desired. I believe this example would need to be saved as "Stay Open Application. The difference between the Cronnix solution and the "stay-open" solution is this: Cronnix will run the script every so often using very little processor resources and it will do so invisibly. You can't normally just "turn it off". This is ideal if a disk needs to be mounted all the time. The stay-open script application will run as long as the script is running, when you quit the script it will stop checking and remounting. Unfortunately stay-open scripts sort of use a lot of processor and I avoid them if possible. Since the "list disks" command also pings the other machine it works well to maintain a mount where the AFP machine would timeout from inactivity. I believe the AFP timeout is 5 minutes for ServerX. The stay-open script would be a better solution if you want to only remount the disk sometimes. Also, the 1 minute parameter is ideal for the stay-open script. If you wanted to avoid problems with unreliable internet connections probably a 5 minute interval (or more) would be better. A script that is trying to mount a cranky network disk every 1 minute can be a problem. Hope that spells out some of the variables... -- Gnarlie > Entity Jerry Kindall uttered this profundity: > [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > > Hope that spells out some of the variables... Thank you for the information. This post is very informative and I need to figure out what the best option is for my particular case. I will probably run both and see which one runs the most efficient and most reliable. Thanks for again for everybodys help. Jeff >> Entity Jeff Grossman spoke thus: >> [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > 60 seconds. Change the "return 60" line for longer or shorter interval > as desired. I won't need to run any time of cron program to run the application every 60 seconds? Applescript will keep the program open and just run it every 60 seconds for me? This sounds like it might work for me. Thanks for the information. Jeff > Entity Jeff Grossman spoke thus: > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > -- Gnarlie's Applescript page: > http://Gnarlodious.com/Apple/AppleScript/ Thank you for this information. I will take a look. I would prefer to run not another application, but if I have to, I will probably do it. Jeff |
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