SANDRO NOEL  i'm working on it.   
(Version 2.0.6)

SANDRO NOEL  .local

is the default local domain

by default every Mac host will add that to it's host Name

it's normal.  
(Version 2.0.5)

SANDRO NOEL  that my friend is because you are mounting drives to the same server with different users.

one of them has lower access rights than the other one.

The way AFP works is that once you authenticate with the server it shows you only what you are allowed to see.

so let's say you log in with a guest account on the server first.

you will see only the public shares.

and the your full power user will not even see his shares. thus the directory not found message... what you have to do is use only one user per server.

if that is not your case, then it is something i have not encountered yet.  
(Version 2.0.5)

SANDRO NOEL  something must have changed on your system that broke the bonjour notifications.

i run OS X with all the latest updates and BM still works like a charm,

did you try restarting the application ?

can you send me the logs ?

thank you .  
(Version 2.0.5)

SANDRO NOEL  Hey Maxxx

Let me know if the new version does it for you.

Thanks.  
(Version 2.0.4)

SANDRO NOEL  Hey Maxxx

Sorry your experiencing wake up problems.

I've been getting that feedback from some other users as well and i'm looking into the problem, but to be honest, i cant reproduce the problem here, i do not know why, all my computers wake up and connect properly, i also have a laptop roaming in 3 different networks and BM connects to the right server every time without fail. i'm puzzelled.

As far as the magic packets are concerned, i'll look into it, it's an interesting feature. :)

thanks for the feedback!

Sandro.  
(Version 2.0.4)

SANDRO NOEL  Jeff Give me an email so i can send you a mail with the beta.

bonjour.mounter@gmail.com  
(Version 2.0.3)

SANDRO NOEL  I think i see what the problem is,

BM Detects that then network has come online but it get's excited before the ip is actually assigned. i'll implement a detection and see if that fixes things.  
(Version 2.0.3)

SANDRO NOEL  No event in the console log at all or the sequence of events is still the same?

there should at least be some bonjour notifications in the logs.

If there is no notifications in the logs, there can be only 2 problems

1: BM froze up... never saw it do that but hey... it's possible.

2: something in your system is not reacting as it's supposed to.

Question : do you see the cube show up after your mini wakes from sleep?

to see this for real you would need to:

1: put the cube to sleep, and then wait for the cube to disappear from the mini's finder,

2: and then put the mini to sleep.

3: wake the cube, wait a bit for the first notifications to pass like 15 minutes.

4: wake the mini.

One thing you should not forget is that the bonjour protocol is constructed in a way that at first it will advertise itself often, but as time passes, it will wait longer and longer before sending a new advertise, to avoid unnecessary network traffic. So if the cube has been up for a long while before the mini comes up, it "might" be possible that it can take a while before the mini receives notifications from the cube.

as i remember the computer is supposed to ask the network who's around when it starts up, but I'm not totally sure if this happens when it wakes or just when the system is started.

Thank you very much for your help Jeff, it's really appreciated.  
(Version 2.0.3)

SANDRO NOEL  Jeff, you are the one helping me right now, so I'm the one thanking you.

it is very appreciated!!!  
(Version 2.0.3)

SANDRO NOEL  Great!

thank you Jeff

so service discovery is working properly.  
(Version 2.0.3)

SANDRO NOEL  Jeff

you see the disk appeared and disappeared notification in the logs ? that's bonjour mounter telling you it noticed that the drive was mounted/unmounted outside of it's interface

it is possible that in the sharepoint list the status did not get updated properly, i will look into it.

what i would like you to try is to stop the sharing on the cube, and hen start it up again and see if BM notices it and tries to remount it.

send me the logs about it... please

Then try putting the cube to sleep, and waking it up again see if BM tries to mount it's shares when it comes back up.

send me the logs please...

you might not notice any change if you look at the mounted volumes in finder because Leopard keeps them on the desktop for a while even if the server has gone to sleep.

when the services is shutdown you will get a notification from the finder that the service has disconnected you, short after BM will try to unmount the shares with no success because the finder already did just that, but it it will reset it's status to offline.

at least this is what happens on all my 5 machines.

let me know how it goes on yours.

gratefully thank you !

Sandro.  
(Version 2.0.3)

SANDRO NOEL  It's regretfull that you have a bad experience with BM.

I have not had the time to bring up a help file, or setup a site for BM until now

because I've been busy implementing new features in the software.

But it is being designed. and will show up at some point in the future.

As far as support goes I have always payed close attention to my users request.

if you would of tried to send an email instead of jumping the guns, and complaining like a school girl you probably would of gotten a reply within the hour.

BM Detects bonjour broadcasting servers only.

if your FTP server is not bonjour enabled, BM will not detect it's presence.

now will it do it for SMB servers that are not bonjour enabled.

thus the name "bonjour mounter"

----------------

If the software was a scam like you say, do you really think I would waste my time

begging for 10$ donations? PLEASE. I have better things to do.

I would charge 50$ for it and have you use the software only after you payed me, without a trail, or a preview like most software vendors do.

Donations are a way for people who enjoy the software to show the developer appreciation for it's work that is all, and honestly, I've gotten quite a bit of donations, to my greatest amazement.

PLEASE PLEASE by all means, if you do not like the software DELETE IT and move on.

I really do not care for your personal petty cash.

I will not be insulted by being called a fraud.  
(Version 2.0.3)

SANDRO NOEL  It would be nice if you could send me the logs

for the first day and the second day.

please.  
(Version 2.0.3)

SANDRO NOEL  It's regretfull that you have a bad experience with BM.

I have not had the time to bring up a help file, or setup a site for BM until now

because I've been busy implementing new features in the software.

But it is being designed. and will show up at some point in the future.

As far as support goes I have always payed close attention to my users request.

if you would of tried to send an email instead of jumping the guns, and complaining like a school girl you probably would of gotten a reply within the hour.

BM Detects bonjour broadcasting servers only.

if your FTP server is not bonjour enabled, BM will not detect it's presence.

now will it do it for SMB servers that are not bonjour enabled.

thus the name "bonjour mounter"

----------------

If the software was a scam like you say, do you really think I would waste my time

begging for 10$ donations? PLEASE. I have better things to do.

I would charge 50$ for it and have you use the software only after you payed me, without a trail, or a preview like most software vendors do.

Donations are a way for people who enjoy the software to show the developer appreciation for it's work that is all, and honestly, I've gotten quite a bit of donations, to my greatest amazement.

PLEASE PLEASE by all means, if you do not like the software DELETE IT and move on.

I really do not care for your personal petty cash.

I will not be insulted by being called a fraud.  
(Version 2.0.3)

SANDRO NOEL  it has been fixed in 2.0.3, have you updated?  
(Version 2.0.3)

SANDRO NOEL  Bonjour Mounter does have code to deal with disappearing servers,

but it seems it does not receive notification when the computer goes to sleep.

I'm looking into it.  
(Version 2.0.2)

SANDRO NOEL  without the menu-bar icon there would be no way for you to administer the application.  
(Version 2.0.2)

SANDRO NOEL  Yep that is what it does.

Provided that the computer you are trying to connect to broadcasts it's presence with Bonjour, it will get mounted as soon as it is seen.  
(Version 2.0.2)

SANDRO NOEL  WARNING!!!!!! 2.0.2 File Format is not compatible with previous versions due to application rewrite. you will have to reenter your SharePoints definitions.

It does not delete them, it just does not read them.  
(Version 2.0.2)

SANDRO NOEL  Freezy,

Being a developer myself I would recommend that you rename the plist extension to another of your choosing, it does not matter the name of the extension your software will still load the content as a plist dictionary. and this way you will not confuse the rest of the system.

Regards.  
(Version 1.9v309)

SANDRO NOEL  i currently sync with my server over ssh, could it be possibe to enter the destination as

ssh user@server:/path

?  
(Version 0.4.1)

SANDRO NOEL  Thank you Mark!

I had fun adding the features you asked for!  
(Version 2.0)

SANDRO NOEL  Uffe

The only thing that has changed and the reason why you do not see the threads asking for a password is that before the mounting threads get launched, BM will check if any of the mounts require a password.

It will ask for that password and then pass it along to the mounting procedure as needed.

The password will remain in RAM for the duration of the execution of the program. once BM is closed the passwords are lost they are not saved to disk.

This procedure allows me to mount multiple shares from the same host with the same username/password.

as opposed to asking the system to validate it against the server and THEN ask the user for the password.

Since BM is a multi threaded application, up to 4 mounts can happen at the same time

thus causing the system to ask to 4 passwords at once even if they are for the same host. witch is not a desired situation for the users.

NOTE: This password scheme, was developed expressly for you, since no one else has mentioned the need for it. If you have now lost trust in BM because the password dialogue is a custom dialogue, I do not know what to say else than, do what you think is best, even if it means discontinuing the use of BM.

Best Regards.  
(Version 1.9.2)

SANDRO NOEL  I was using the system prompted dialogue before, and you complained about it.

There is not much many ways for me to control the system dialogue from the API that is available.

If you know of a way to do it, you should let me know.

Thanks.  
(Version 1.9.2)

SANDRO NOEL  You are Welcome, Thank you for the review it is very appreciated!!!

P.S. : I created Bonjour mounter for that exact reason in the first place :) i had the same need on multiple computers.  
(Version 1.9.2)

SANDRO NOEL  Oups.... will update.  
(Version 1.9.1)

SANDRO NOEL  i'm working on a release, if you would like to test it before i release it, please send me a mail @ bonjour.mounter@gmail.com  
(Version 1.9)

SANDRO NOEL  It should. unless you have something different from all the other users.  
(Version 1.9)

SANDRO NOEL  Ok, I'm looking into it, but you realize that I do not have access to a SecureID server to test this out, so I'm pretty much on a trail and error here.

and well, you are the trail :)  
(Version 1.9)

SANDRO NOEL  Check the preferences.

There is a login item, and when BM launches, it tries to mount all the defined mounts.  
(Version 1.9)

SANDRO NOEL  Finder has functionality that are not accessible to developers...  
(Version 1.9)

SANDRO NOEL  BM will prompt for login information if the username and/or password box are empty.

but that procedure is left to the Operating system, it is not past of BM.  
(Version 1.9)

SANDRO NOEL  By the way AFP mount points are case sensitive.  
(Version 1.9)

SANDRO NOEL  You can post your logs here.

I check this site many times a day.  
(Version 1.9)

SANDRO NOEL  One core component I use is available only on 10.5

I would have to rework the whole mounting procedures to do it.

But it could be done, maybe in the future is there is enough demand for it.  
(Version 1.9)

SANDRO NOEL  1.9 should fix it....  
(Version 1.9)

SANDRO NOEL  Actually you don't need to add the %20 to your spaces. Bonjour Mounter does it internally.  
(Version 1.7)

SANDRO NOEL  Delete the entry for witch you want to have a prompt and reenter it WITHOUT any password or username.  
(Version 1.7)

SANDRO NOEL  5016 Server is not responding.

5023 User authentication failed (usually, password is not correct).

in the developer documentation  
(Version 1.6)

SANDRO NOEL  AH! that makes it understandable now.

i'll get back to you asap.  
(Version 1.6)

SANDRO NOEL  By the way the error 5042 = Password has expired on server.  
(Version 1.6)

SANDRO NOEL  the actual procedure is a little more complicated, but I will do something that will implement an alternate method if the password is not in the box. and i will add the checkboz to not save the password.

But why exactly do you not want to save your password in BM ? or in your keychain ?

if you cant mount with full name and password, removing it from BM will not change anything, it will just prompt you for it.  
(Version 1.6)

SANDRO NOEL  it is supposed to, but i changed so many things as of late, I'll look into it.  
(Version 1.6)

SANDRO NOEL  Yes I noticed yesterday that the domain was getting chopped off,

I intended to chop off .local. only I fixed it,

it will be released in 1.7 as soon as I'm done with all the other features.  
(Version 1.6)

SANDRO NOEL  Wish it would too, what is the service on your WD SMB AFP ? does it have bonjour ?  
(Version 1.6)

SANDRO NOEL  CIFS is a Microsoft extension to SMB.

yes BM will prompt for a password if it is wrong but only if it is not already in you keychain.  
(Version 1.6)

SANDRO NOEL  already done dude.  
(Version 1.6)

SANDRO NOEL  i'll try it out on a vmware.

try using CIFS and see if it makes a difference .  
(Version 1.6)

SANDRO NOEL  I'm here :)

- Example: smb://nealxp/Documents and Settings/Neal/My Documents.

1: click on the + sign in the main window.

2: select smb from the popup box

3: set the hostname to nealxp

4: set the sharepoint to Documents and Settings OR Neal OR My Documents

depending on what you can see in the network browser when you connect to your XP machine

or depending on what you shared on the XP machine.

5: username to connect

6: password.

and your done.

hope this helps.  
(Version 1.6)

SANDRO NOEL  - add an item to choose SharePoint from Hosts file into Mac Os X

Can you explain what you want?

do you want me to pick up the host names from the host file ?

- add an item to choose from an IP Search engine (such as WakeOnLan)

Can you explain ?

- add FTP mount

I will try to add this, but i doubt that bonjour services will be useful in auto mounting this.

or resolving the host. or detecting it's presence over the internet.

- add test button (into Edit mode)

sure why not, but you could also use the "mount selected" button in the main window.  
(Version 1.6)

SANDRO NOEL  CIFS is an extension to SMB supported by Microsoft.  
(Version 1.6)

SANDRO NOEL  i don't have a ppc Mac, but the compiler is compiling for ppc, at the same time as intel.

so this is a universal binary, but i put intel because i can not test it on ppc

so give it a try.  
(Version 1.6)

SANDRO NOEL  The problem was fixed in 1.5

thank you !  
(Version 1.5)

SANDRO NOEL  Give 1.5 a try and let me know how it works for you .  
(Version 1.5)

SANDRO NOEL  :) I just added Editing to 1.6  
(Version 1.5)

SANDRO NOEL  Thank you !!!!

P.S. : can you rate it ? :D  
(Version 1.5)

SANDRO NOEL  Yes that is what it is supposed to do, does the IP show up in the finer ?

I Hope not that is not the intended behavior, it should show that G4 Server is mounted

Yes, I will add the possibility to edit the mounts, I just thought I'd make it work for the general public before I tweaked the interface.

Thank you for your feedback, and your patience,

This is the first time I release a personal creation :)

quite an experience so far.  
(Version 1.5)

SANDRO NOEL  If it's AFP on a Mac it should advertise itself without any other help.

If it's AFP on another system you need to have a seperate bonjour setup

for the server to advertise.

Zeroconf / Avahi .. on linux and all other flavors.  
(Version 1.5)

SANDRO NOEL  P.S. : the release note did say the file format had changed and was incompatible.

you should of deleted your plist. :)  
(Version 1.5)

SANDRO NOEL  Ah i see, is it a samba server ?

smb servers are mounted tentatively even if the resolve failed, as long as the hostname is the same as the SMB name, it should work.

if it's a AFP server on a linux station, be sure to have avahi installed and configured.

if it's a mac, you are having DNS problems on your network.

Note: 1.1 was not doing any resolving at all, nothing close to what 1.5 is doing.

i was erroneously using the display name in the mount procedure, witch is not the right way to go :) but if it's working for you... by all means.  
(Version 1.5)

SANDRO NOEL  What is the file server you are using.  
(Version 1.5)

SANDRO NOEL  Good I'm verry happy !!!!

glad you like it !!!  
(Version 1.5)

SANDRO NOEL  The whole point of "mounting silently in the background"

keyword here being silent...  
(Version 1.4)

SANDRO NOEL  You'll be happy with version 1.5 there is a ton of logging.

as far as usage sample, well,

0: click on the + sign to ass a mount.

1: select a file system type in the popup box.

2: either select a server from the list of servers or enter your own.

3: enter a share point from the server you selected.

4: your username.

5: your password.

6: click save.

7: go back to step 0 for the next mount.

Have fun.  
(Version 1.4)

SANDRO NOEL  it's funny, 1.1 was using the bonjour display name to mount the share point.

if you have a machine with the Mac Naming, "your mane's computer"

that is what was being used, you must have short names for your computers.

like i did, before releasing the software.

but I don't understand why 1.4 does not work for you, because the mounting sequence

starts with the unix/smb/window host name if fails it tries the ip addresses provided by the bonjour services.

for it not to work, it would mean that bonjour can not get the hostname, and the ip's of the machine you are trying to connect to. but then again, you would not be able to connect with just the display name either.

OR, the server you are trying to connect to does not advertise with bonjour.

in witch case bonjour Mounter tries the display name you entered in the mount list.  
(Version 1.4)

SANDRO NOEL  Try version 1.4

there was a bug that made the application crash in 1.3  
(Version 1.3)

SANDRO NOEL  I was able to reproduce it, i'm looking into it.  
(Version 1.3)

SANDRO NOEL  Check to see if Bonjour Mounter was able to create it's Application Support folder in your user's library.

asides from that, there is not much Bonjour mounter tries to do to save the mount points.  
(Version 1.3)

SANDRO NOEL  Sorry,

That must be something with your system, I am running it on 5 systems here.

all 10.5.5  
(Version 1.3)

SANDRO NOEL  RAVAGE,

Bonjour mounter logs errors in the console, you can filter them using the keyword "bonjour" and send me back the error string.

I'll try to figure out why it's not working for you.

currently BM1.3 tries to mount with the host name and if that is unsuccessful it tries to mount using the IP array provided by bonjour services, it will try every IPV4 provided.

if unsuccessful it will log an error message for every IP to the console log.  
(Version 1.3)

SANDRO NOEL  also try to ping your iphone by host name and see if you get an ip back.

if your computer can not resolve the ip of the phone Bonjour mounter can not do it either.

"finder" has other ways to mount that i am not aware of at this point in time.  
(Version 1.2)

SANDRO NOEL  I would have to agree with you there.

check that your computer can actually resolve the mane of your server to an ip.

try to ping it by name.  
(Version 1.2)

SANDRO NOEL  Bonjour mounter logs errors in the console,

can you give me the output of the latest attempt?

thank you.  
(Version 1.2)

SANDRO NOEL  Hello Max

What is the bonjour name of your mac mini?

and what is the mane of the share of your mac mini ?

can you mount it with the finer ?

I'll name my server the same name and try with those settings and try to replicate the problem.

thank you!  
(Version 1.2)

SANDRO NOEL  Hey Max.

Version 1.2 should resolve your issues.

please let me know.  
(Version 1.2)

SANDRO NOEL  Thank you for your feedback.

I will add those features in a near future.  
(Version 1.2)

SANDRO NOEL  hey there User :)

I have found the problem and

I am currently in testing of the modifications.

the release will be there shortly.  
(Version 1.1)

SANDRO NOEL  To bad you've had a bad experience .

it seems that the procedure I use to mount the drives does not like to have server names with spaces or apostrophe in the name.

I've reproduced the problem on my servers, and I'm working on a fix.  
(Version 1.1)

SANDRO NOEL  I've never tested with the version used on the iphone, but I tested with Linux Netatalk, and OSX Native AFP.

Try not entering a username and password for the share definition.

if it's already in your keychain it will be used instead.

I'll have a look into it.  
(Version 1.1)

SANDRO NOEL  My bad, Bonjour Mounter is supposed to try and mount all on startup, but i commented out the code for testing, it will be reactivated in the next update.  
(Version 1.0)

SANDRO NOEL  install bonjour on your windows machine. it will then detect it .  
(Version 1.0)

SANDRO NOEL  I'm sorry I misunderstood your suggestion on the first read.

I will look into a way to unmount share points that you do not want.

Thank you for the suggestion.  
(Version 1.0)

SANDRO NOEL  Bonjour mounter will only mount the share points that are defined in it's list of mounts.

At login or when the server becomes available it will mount all the share points that you have defined, nothing else. So if like me you roam from network to network, it will be nice to define only the one you actually use.

If other access points than the ones you have defined in Bonjour Mounter are getting mounted, then it's probably something in relation to your network, in the sense that OS X Server can also do auto mounting when you log on the network.

Thank you for trying out Bonjour mounter!  
(Version 1.0)