...connect to a shared folder on a MAC with director 11???

Question

Hi All,
I developed a project a few years ago that work as follows.
This was designed to work on Win XP, using Director MX2004
Server Setup
All the media files where installed on a server and the folder they resided in was setup as a shared folder.
Workstation Setup
A projector was installed on a workstation PC, along with the director projector, a txt file was install, the txt file contained the unc path to where all the media files resided. i.e. all director & video file etc.
The projector file would read the text file, get the unc path, and open the appropriate dxr file.
This worked really well.
My question is, now I'm upgrading the software to Director 11, it is required to work the same way on MAC OSX. The only difference to the system will be that the media files will reside on a MAC server and the workstations will be MACs (Intel MACs running the latest OSX).
How can you connect to a shared folder on a MAC with director 11?
Its not '\\share_name'... should 'afp:\\share_name' work???
I keep getting the can't find 'myfile.dxr' alertbox
I hope I've explained myself well enough.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Jason

Answer 1

Using a similar technique you could write the name of the mounted volume (just the name in this case, not the full path) to a text file and open it with a separate AppleScript app containing the applescript below. Note that any files you have accessed from the volume will probably have to be unlinked before Finder will be able to eject it.
on open (theFile)
  set theVolume to readFile(theFile as text)
  if (theVolume is "") then
    return false
  end if
  try
    tell application "Finder"
      eject theVolume
    end tell
    return true
  on error
    return false
  end try
end open
on readFile(theFileName)
  try
    set theFileRef to (open for access file theFileName)
  on error
    return ""
  end try
  try
    set theText to (read theFileRef)
  on error
    set theText to ""
  end try
  close access theFileRef
  return theText
end readFile