Mounting a Remote AppleShare

[John C. Welch]

On 10/15/04 4:05 PM, "Jim Hart" <jhart at bates.edu> wrote:

> [jhart at A3590 mnt]$ sudo mount -t hfs a4567.bates.edu /mnt/a4567
> Password:
> mount: special device a4567.bates.edu does not exist
> [jhart at A3590 mnt]$ sudo mount -t hfs afp://a4567.bates.edu /mnt/a4567
> mount: special device afp://a4567.bates.edu does not exist

Part of the problem is that it looks like you're trying to mount a server
not a sharepoint.

The AFP syntax without the userid & password info is pretty basic:

afp://serverDNSnameorIPaddress/sharepoint

You need to give it a share to mount.

I'm also unsure that the generic mount command will work for AFP the way you
have it spec'd. 

For one, when you mount via AFP, (or SMB or NFS) for that matter, you aren't
mounting the physical hard disk format, you're mounting the network file
protocol abstraction of that sharepoint. So even from a Mac, you aren't
mounting HFS(+), you're mounting AFP, so that should more correctly be

Mount -t afp 

I would look for a "mount_afp" version of mount, ala OS X, since that allows
for handling the AFP URL mount more correctly.

john

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