[rshah]

Thanks cyngus for an interesting idea

I have a PDF form that I want to attach to contacts in the address book. The PDF just contains more information than can be held in the address book. My goal was to make it easy for anyone to view or edit the information in the PDF file.

I could probably use an Applescript in Address Book to open the PDF file (and not download like in Safari, which means that if someone edits the document they have to know the correct location to put the file). The script would just open the document listed in the hompage field of Address book with a PDF reader. I don’t know for sure, but it seems that applescript could do that.

I was hoping for even a simpler solution that would involve just a link. (Using a script is a few more steps for the user). But I think that applescript is probably my best solution. Now I have to figure out how to do this with applescript.

Thanks for all of your help

[rshah]

Thanks for the comment, it clarified the issues for me.

My goal was to have a link in the mac Address Book or a web page that linked to a PDF. I was hoping if I used afp, I could get the PDF reader to open the page at the correct location. This way if a person edits the file, they can just hit save and not have to figure out the correct location. But it looks like if I use AFP, the user will have to open the file through the finder window.

My other option is to use http to serve the files. The problem here is that Safari will download the PDF files and so users will have to renavigate through the file structure to save the file.

I am just trying to make it easy for my users. It looks like neither http or afp will do exactly what I want.

Any advice?

[rshah]

I have had similar error messages on the client side

Two users have occassional problems logging in or connecting to share points (10 other computers identifically configured don’t have this problem).

The logs looks similar with entries like this:
Feb 3 08:17:34 JHammitt lookupd[206]: dsstore_fetch_internal 74 Store.2944 _dss
tore_dsrecord_fread returned incorrect ID 76 at offset %s
Feb 3 08:17:34 JHammitt lookupd[206]: dsstore_fetch_internal 76 Store.544 _dsst
ore_dsrecord_fread failed at offset %s
Feb 3 08:17:37 JHammitt DirectoryService[189]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Feb 3 08:17:38 JHammitt DirectoryService[189]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local

I am at 10.3.7 with mobile users
I have been using the following command in an effort to address this problem:
sudo niutil -destroy . /mcx_cache

I haven’t seen anyone else with this problem,
but I wanted to post this in case someone else has a similar issue

Rajiv

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