[FX.php List] [OT] Problem trying to use mount_afp w/ FileMaker Server

Alex Gates alex at gandrpublishing.com
Fri Nov 30 09:12:55 MST 2007


I agree with ggt that it probably has to do with the user - does the 
user have root access?
just brainstorming ideas here...

Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2007 4:43 PM, Jon Montgomery <igsmasupport at igsmasouth.org> wrote:
>> Bob,
>>     I hesitate to even reply only because I am not as experienced with some
>> of these setups.  What about running Disk Utility->Repair Permissions?  It
>> seems to fix a multitude of sins on my computers that I didn't even know
>> existed but all seems to be better afterwards!
>>     Just a thought.
>>
>> Jon Montgomery
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/30/07 9:17 AM, "Bob Patin" <bob at patin.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm hoping that one of you may have seen this error before:
>>>
>>> I use a shell script to backup my FM Servers to both a 2nd internal
>>> drive and to an external volume. The script works great on my other FM
>>> servers, and used to work on this one, but has stopped in the last
>>> weeks.
>>>
>>> I tracked the problem down to its failure to mount the external
>>> volume; here is the error I get when I try using mount_afp in Terminal:
>>>
>>> mount_afp: the mount flags are 0000 the altflags are 0020
>>> mount_afp: AfPMountURL returned error 1, errno is 1
>>>
>>> If anyone has any insight on how to fix this, I'd much appreciate it;
>>> I searched the web for a solution but haven't found anything so far.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Bob Patin
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> 
> However in essence your failure is probably in the user used to login,
> please do not fix the permissions, it might generate new problems,
> unless you know what you are doing.
> 
> ggt
> 
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