Mounting a local Vollume via AFP

Sat Jul 28 05:25:59 PDT 2007

The only way you can do this is accesssing your volumes via smb.

Hope it helps

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Le 27 juil. 07 à 21:00, macosx-admin-request at omnigroup.com a écrit :

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>    1. Mounting a local Vollume via AFP (Steve Steinitz)
>    2. Re: Mounting a local Vollume via AFP (Andy Ringsmuth)
>    3. Re: Mounting a local Vollume via AFP (Patrick Gallagher)
>    4. Re: Mounting a local Vollume via AFP (Steve Steinitz)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:01:31 +1000
> From: Steve Steinitz <steinitz at bigpond.net.au>
> Subject: Mounting a local Vollume via AFP
> To: macosx-admin at omnigroup.com
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> Hello,
>
> I would like to access a local volume as if it were an AFP mount.
>
> I've written a Core Data application.  I had hoped to share it among
> two users: one accessing the database from the internal drive and one
> accessing it remotely via AFP.  It didn't work - only one user at a
> time can access the database file.  An Apple employee explained that
> both users must access the database file via the same protocol and
> suggested that I buy a third machine to host the database file.
>
> That is certainly an option but the application is a point of sale
> system on the floor of a busy retailer.  A network connection might be
> too sluggish.  For the remote user speed doesn't matter.
>
> Which brings me to back to my question.  The Finder's Connect to
> Server command dis-allows connection to a local disk.  Do any of you
> know how to circumvent that?
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
>
> Steve
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:10:24 -0500
> From: Andy Ringsmuth <andyring at inebraska.com>
> Subject: Re: Mounting a local Vollume via AFP
> To: Steve Steinitz <steinitz at bigpond.net.au>
> Cc: macosx-admin at omnigroup.com
> Message-ID: <769C28FD-48D2-4059-9C19-7E46343B8276 at inebraska.com>
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>> I would like to access a local volume as if it were an AFP mount.
>>
>> I've written a Core Data application.  I had hoped to share it among
>> two users: one accessing the database from the internal drive and one
>> accessing it remotely via AFP.  It didn't work - only one user at a
>> time can access the database file.  An Apple employee explained that
>> both users must access the database file via the same protocol and
>> suggested that I buy a third machine to host the database file.
>>
>> That is certainly an option but the application is a point of sale
>> system on the floor of a busy retailer.  A network connection  
>> might be
>> too sluggish.  For the remote user speed doesn't matter.
>>
>> Which brings me to back to my question.  The Finder's Connect to
>> Server command dis-allows connection to a local disk.  Do any of you
>> know how to circumvent that?
>
> I'd pick up a new AirPort Extreme base station.  You can plug USB
> hard disks into it and share them across a network, wired or
> wirelessly, very easy.  It's not quite the solution you're looking
> for, but probably worth considering.
>
>
> -Andy
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:59:06 -0400
> From: "Patrick Gallagher" <patgmac at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Mounting a local Vollume via AFP
> To: "Andy Ringsmuth" <andyring at inebraska.com>
> Cc: macosx-admin at omnigroup.com, Steve Steinitz
> 	<steinitz at bigpond.net.au>
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> On 7/26/07, Andy Ringsmuth <andyring at inebraska.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'd pick up a new AirPort Extreme base station.  You can plug USB
>> hard disks into it and share them across a network, wired or
>> wirelessly, very easy.  It's not quite the solution you're looking
>> for, but probably worth considering.
>
>
> You can't run a database from that kind of setup, a computer with  
> an OS
> needs to run the db process.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Patrick Gallagher
> Emory College
> ACSA, ACTC, ACHDS, A+, Network+, RHCT
> http://patgmac.blogspot.com
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:13:48 +1000
> From: Steve Steinitz <steinitz at bigpond.net.au>
> Subject: Re: Mounting a local Vollume via AFP
> To: macosx-admin at omnigroup.com
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> Hello,
>
> Thanks Andy and Patrick for your replies.  Anyone else have ideas?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve
>
>>> I'd pick up a new AirPort Extreme base station.  You can plug USB
>>> hard disks into it and share them across a network, wired or
>>> wirelessly, very easy.  It's not quite the solution you're looking
>>> for, but probably worth considering.
>
>> You can't run a database from that kind of setup, a computer with  
>> an OS
>> needs to run the db process.
>
>
> Excerpt from original question:
>
> Which brings me to back to my question.  The Finder's Connect to
> Server command dis-allows connection to a local disk.  Do any of you
> know how to circumvent that?
>
>
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