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

[Bob Patin]

No, it's not the user; I tried with root access too.

There are lots of mentions on the web about this, just no solutions...


On Nov 30, 2007, at 10:12 AM, Alex Gates wrote:

> 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
>>>> Longterm Solutions
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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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