Mounting AFP shares under a different name.

[glydeen]

I am looking for a solution that would allow me to share a volumes called “X” but possible be able to mount via command line or some other method and call it “X_High_Res”

In a nut shell we are sharing a helios volume called X which is High Res, We are writting a perl script to mirror down all data to a remote Xserve but in lowres format. This Volume also called “X”

Keeping the name allows us to fool Quark when it comes time to “Re-link”

Now the issues is, our client will want a few people the ability to mount the highres volume on Helios but have the volume show up on their desk as “X_High_Res” so they don’t confuse the two by calling them just plain X.

Can this be done using command line mount commands?

Clear as mud? 😆

[tlarkin]

I guess you could use the mkdir command and create a folder called exactly what you want, and have the mount symbolically link that folder. Since the folder will be called what you want, but it will link to /volumes/x that would achieve what you wanted to.

[glydeen]

Thanks but I have tried both suggestions.

Here is what I have tried using, please assume permissions are correct.

mkdir ~/Desktop/X_High_Res

mount_afp -i -o automounted afp://user:[email protected]/X ~/Desktop/X_High_Res”

In this example the shared mountpoint “X” will show on the desktop as “X_High_Res”.

When opened in the finder or used to place images in Quark, the path will show as the actual mount point of X. Why I can’t simply call it by the one name is complicated, but I need to have this location shared as the two different names.

I thought about sharing as NFS and then having a second server use the NFS as a sharepoint “re-sharing” as an AFP volume.

Any more thoughts would be appreciated.

Gary

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