nfs mount masking firewire drive

[Dan Shoop]

At 8:00 PM -0400 6/6/07, tom wible wrote:
>i had been running into problems using my linux nfs mount for my 
>elgato eyetv archive (i also run a webserver on the linux box, & i 
>suspected ethernet issues)  so i got a firewire hdd to plug into my 
>minimacduo.
>
>i copied the archive from the nfs mount to the f/w drive, and eyetv 
>was happy. unfortunately, the applescript i wrote to parse the xml 
>info files to display on a webpage broke:-(
>
>my nfs mount nfs://linuxbox/DVR has the same name as the hfs mount, 
>but that's not a problem to darwin:
>
>/Volumes/DVR		# the hfs firewire hdd
>/Volumes/linuxbox/DVR	# obviously
>
>but my applescript goes from posix path to hfs:
>
>set recDir to "/Volumes/DVR/recordings/" -- my firewire drive, 
>stored as posixpath in VirtualDVHS.app's plist
>set tvpiFile to "China From the Inside_Jan_17_2007__11_59_26-1_PM.m2t.tvpi" --
>do shell script "ls " & quoted form of (recDir & tvpiFile)
>set tvpiFile to (POSIX file recDir & tvpiFile)
>set xmlFile to tvpiFile as Unicode text
>log xmlFile
>
>>>applescript eventlog:
>>>	(*DVR:recordings:China From the
>Inside_Jan_17_2007__11_59_26-1_PM.m2t.tvpi*)
>
>tell application "System Events"
>	set theXML to contents of XML file xmlFile
>
>>>asel:
>>>	get contents of XML file "DVR:recordings:China From the 
>>>Inside_Jan_17_2007__11_59_26-1_PM.m2t.tvpi"
>>>		"System Events got an error: 
>>>NSReceiverEvaluationScriptError: 4"
>
>changing recDir to
>	"/Volumes/linuxbox/DVR/recordings/"
>results in and hfs path of
>	DVR:recordings:China From the...
>
>oops! when i eject the nfs mount, my applescript is happy, so 
>obviously the finder's hiding of the posix path can't cope with the 
>ambiguity:-(

Was there a question here somewhere?

As for Classical style file paths it's always been Volume:folder:folder:file.

Sure you don't have a "DVR 1" somewhere?
-- 

-dhan

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