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- Choose -- choose network file server
-
- Syntax Choose [options...] name...
-
- Description Choose non-interactively mounts the specified AppleShare volumes.
- Each name takes the form:
-
- [zone]:server:volume
-
- The zone name is always optional and defaults to the current zone.
- A server name must be preceeded by (at least) a colon. The volume
- name must be separated from the server name by a colon. Note that
- with the zone name omitted, the server/volume name combination
- appears much like a GS/OS pathname.
-
- When mounting file server volumes, both the server name and volume
- name are required. If any portion of the zone/server/volume name
- contains a space or semi-colon character, the entire entity name
- must be quoted (to prevent the APW shell from getting confused).
-
- Server and volume passwords are case-sensitive. More than one
- server and volume may be mounted with a single command, but the
- server and volume passwords must be the same for each, since at
- most one password of each type may be specified on the command
- line.
-
- Instead of specifying the entity name on the command line, you may
- use the -f option to specify a filename of a file in which the
- necessary information has been stored. You may also use the -w
- option to open an interactive window to specify the necessary
- parameters and (optionally) store them into a file which may be
- used with the -f option. See the discussion of these options
- below.
-
- Input None.
-
- Output None.
-
- Diagnostics Errors are written to diagnostic output.
-
- Various confusing messages (such as "No AFPLogin call has been
- successfully made for this session") are usually the result of a
- missing or mis-types password.
-
- Status The following status codes may be returned:
-
- 0 No errors
- 1 Syntax error on command line
- 2 System error (such as Out Of Memory)
- -1 Abort (Command-.)
-
- Options -f[ile] filename
- Specify the name of a file that contains the necessary server
- mount parameters. (A file may be produced while in the
- interactive window; see the -w option.) The filename may
- contain APW wildcard characters.
-
- The -f option can not be used when an entity name is specified
- on the APW command line
-
- -guest
- Log in as a guest instead of with a user name.
-
- -p[rogress]
- Display program copyright and progress information during
- execution.
-
- -pw password
- Specify the server log-in password. The server password
- defaults to the value of the shell variabls "{ServerPassword}".
-
- -u[ser] name
- Specify the user name for the server log-in. This option has
- precedence over the shell variable "{User}", but not over any
- user name saved in a Choose document file. If no valid user
- name is found, -guest is assumed.
-
- -vp password
- Specify the volume log-in password. The volume password
- defaults to the value of the shell variable "{VolumePassword}".
-
- -w[indow]
- Open an interactive, desktop-style window to be used to enter
- the necessary log-in information. This will initialize the
- full desktop environment so that the Control Panel NDA can be
- used to "point & click" your way to the server volume, and then
- enter the information into the fields within the window. Once
- the information is set, you can click on the "Mount" button to
- mount the file server, and/or the "Save" button to save the
- information in a file which can then be used with the -f
- option.
-
- If -w is specified on the command line with no -f option and no
- entity names, the window will be opened immediately for your
- use. If a -f filename or entity name is specified, the window
- will only be opened if the server log-in fails for some reason.
-
- Once into the window environment, simply type the requested
- information into the various fields in the window. Once this
- is complete, click on the "Mount" button or press the RETURN
- key to perform the server log-in. Click on the "Save" button
- or press Command-S to save the log-in information into a file.
- During this process, various messages will appear within the
- top portion of the window letting you know how things are
- going.
-
- This window environment can be used for more than just mounting
- file servers. For example, if you needed to get to the Control
- Panel to select your current printer device, you could use a
-
- Choose -w
-
- command to simply open up the desktop environment, which will
- give you access to the NDA menu (which is where the Control
- Panel NDA "lives").
-
- Examples Choose :Fern's.World:Pasta
-
- Mounts the volume :Pasta: on the server Fern's.World located in
- the current zone, using the default user name, server password,
- and volume password.
-
-
- Choose "Development Tools:DSG Server:Almost APW:" -guest
-
- Mounts the volume :Almost APW: on the server DSG Server in the
- Development Tools zone as a guest.
-
- Choose -w -f Green.Public
-
- Mounts the network entity specified in the file Green.Public,
- with the user name, server password, and volume password also
- specified in the file. If there is any problem in performing
- the log-in, the interactive window will be opened with the
- fields initialized to the values contained within the file.
- This will allow you to modify the field values and try the
- log-in again, then save the modified parameters back into the
- file. (This is useful when the zone of a particular entity has
- changed.)
-
-
- See Also Eject, which can be used to UnMount server volumes, and
- Online, which can be used to list currently mounted volumes.
-