Mount volume with alternative name?

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MattJayC Author

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Mount volume with alternative name?

I did this before by accident,

Currently on boot I run a simple applescript exactly like this

mount volume "smb://uranus/GEN/"

This mounts the volume as Gen

The keychain holds the passwords so I have no need to write username and psw into the applescript

I did it by accident before but I managed to give the drive a different name to GEN something like

mount volume "smb://uranus/GEN/" with label "WINDOWS VOLUME G"

Any suggestions how I might be able to do this?

Many Thanks

Matt

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Feb 8, 2012 1:12 AM

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Answer 1

twtwtw

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Feb 8, 2012 1:34 AM in response to MattJayC

I don't have a remote server to test this with, but I believe the syntax is as follows:

mount volume "Windows Volume G" on server "smb://uranus/GEN/"

If you put the path as the direct object parameter of the mount volume command it will extract the name of the volume from the path, but (if I'm reading the dictionary correctly) if you use the on server parameter you can use the direct object parameter to specify the alternate name.

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MattJayC Author

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Feb 8, 2012 2:54 AM in response to twtwtw

Thanks for the quick response

I get

Connection Failed

The server "smb://uranus/GEN" may not exist

The drive is still working as I can see the old way still

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Answer 3

MattJayC Author

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Feb 8, 2012 5:56 AM in response to MattJayC

Still struggling,

found this using the Terminal

mkdir /Volumes/G

mount -t smbfs //username:password@uranus/GEN /Volumes/G

This does some of it. At top level under my imac it appears as GEN but go into macintosh HD volumes it appears as G. but drag it to the side bar and it becomes GEN again.???

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MattJayC Author

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Feb 9, 2012 4:46 AM in response to twtwtw

This is the best I can do so far

mount volume "smb://username:password@uranus/GEN/"

do shell script "ln -s /Volumes/GEN/ ~/Desktop/G"

This works well, It would be nice to drag it to the Devices sidebar but when you do it goes in there with its old name 😟

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Andy-p

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Aug 22, 2012 5:03 AM in response to MattJayC

Hello Matt,

i have the question too.

Do you have found a better way to map the volumes with alternativ name?

Regards,

Andy

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Answer 6

MattJayC Author

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Aug 22, 2012 5:37 AM in response to Andy-p

Never actually found a way round it, you can create an alias

Use the keyboard combination of Option+Command Key while dragging the icon to the desired location will create a fully functional alias for that Volume then it can be renamed, but that never really worked for me, so I just had to settle for the default name

Matt

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