Mounting a local Vollume via AFP
Agustin Diez Castillo
Agustin.Diez at uv.es
Sat Jul 28 09:01:17 PDT 2007
Maybe SharePoints is a good trick.
> The only way you can do this is accesssing your volumes via smb.
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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>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
> >
> >> 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>
> > Message-ID:
> > <1fffb2dc0707261759o489d2060he1d1bb367ac5c06 at mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >
> > 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
> > Message-ID:
> > <r02010500-1049-AFB664FF3C2111DC8E14000D9327F50E@[192.168.1.14]>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> >
> > 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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