AFP mount problem

[gilm0079]

first off, Im not a guru with macs. I do know linux and windows. I have a few macs here. I am trying to get them to mount a drive to a Microsoft UAM Volume. I installed the UAM program. I got this working on my OS X 10.4 machines. For some reason things are different on my OS X 10.3 machines. You can’t do a mount -t afp command in 10.3. You have to use the mount_afp command instead. When I do this I get an error. Im using the same code (except for the command change from mount -t afp to mount_afp). The error is:

mount_afp: the mount flags are 0000 the altflags are 0020
mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error -1, errno is -1069

The first line is normal when it works, but the second line should not be there. Here is what I am using for the command.

mkdir /Volumes/sharepoint
mount_afp “afp://username:password@FQDN of server/Microsoft UAM Volume” /Volumes/sharepoint

This command works perfectly on the 10.4 OS. Any ideas?

[gilm0079]

n/m. I guess I answered the question for myself, but for anyone else with the same problem. 10.4 works great as is. 10.3 you need to be root. You can’t even do this with a sudo if you are admin.

So i guess, the question has changed. If anyone has any ideas how I can do the mount_afp without becoming root I’d be glad to hear it. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Hi there.
Our server is indeed Panther (for now) but I am trying this same command as root on the local client Mac, which is running 10.4.5.
Any ideas on that? Could it be a config issue on the Sharepoints setup on the server?

Chris

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