Mounting a local Vollume via AFP

[Agustin Diez Castillo]

Steve,
It was Stéphane's suggestion of smb what lead me to SharePoints.
Anyhow, now I'm wondering why you can't share the same directory as
AFP, if I recalled right SharePoints allow to enable both smb and afp,
so I'm wondering why you can't use the afp share from the second machine?
Agustin

> Hello,
> 
> The combination of Agustin Diez Castillo's mention of SharePoints
> (a nice little application) and Stéphane Serra's mention of smb led
> me to a solution.
> 
> I used SharePoints to share a directory over smb (remembering to
> enable Windows Sharing in the Sharing Preference Pane).  Once I got
> all the permissions right I was able to read from and save to a Core
> Data database via smb -- thus fooling the operating system.  And, I
> seemed to be getting the same speed as direct local hard disk access. 
> 
> I then connected via smb from a second machine and lo and behold they
> can both read and write the database simultaneously (for better or
> worse...)
> 
> Note that my Core Data app is connecting to the database file via an
> aliase in the hopes of automounting the smb share.  That worked with
> afp but isn't yet working with smb.  Also, smb seems a little more
> troublesome than afp -- for example, it sometimes won't mount on the
> first try...  Those minor issues aside I'm relieved to have any sort
> of solution.
> 
> I wouldn't want to rely on this solution under heavy use from more
> than one computer but its a great breakthrough and will be useful to
> us in the short-term in our special situation.
> 
> Thank you to all of you who chipped in with your specialized
> networking knowledge.  I had expected a solution along with a stern
> word or two from Mr Shoop but its nice that we can occasionally get by
> on our own :)
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Original 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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