AppleShare: Can‘t Have A "Wild Card" Volume Name



I have a series of Macintosh Laboratories that are set up to use a single,
"Campus Standard Startup disk". This disk is a floppy that students can
take to any lab on campus, insert into a Macintosh, turn on the machine and
have the server volume come up automatically.

All the servers have the name "Server" and there is an "*" in the
AppleShare Prep file that I am told tells the Macintosh to look for the
server in "the zone you are in". In the past, when a new lab has been
brought up, we have just added the new server volume name to a list in the
prep file. This is not working any more.

Is there any way we can get the format of the AppleShare Prep file? Or is
there a way we can use the "*" to tell it to mount "whatever volume is on
that server" like the "*" for zones?

It is not possible to use a wild card for the volume name. It would appear
that you are changing something in the AppleShare Prep file that is being
ignored.

This is the "includes" definition for the Boot Mount List (BMLS resource).

bmlFSElSize EQU 0 ; size of this FSElement
bmlFSNumVols EQU bmlFSElSize+2 ; number of volumes for this
FSElement
bmlUAM EQU bmlFSNumVols+2 ; UAM chosen value (1,2,3)
bmlFSSTStamp EQU bmlUAM+2 ; server timestamp
bmlHasPassword EQU bmlFSSTStamp+4 ; if zero then no password saved
bmlFSPassword EQU bmlHasPassword+2 ; server password
bmlFSUName EQU bmlFSPassword+8 ; start of user name string
bmlFSSObjName EQU bmlFSUName+32 ; server NBP object name
bmlFSSZoneName EQU bmlFSSObjName+33 ; server NBP zone name
bmlFSVolInfo EQU bmlFSSZoneName+33 ; start of volume info



Published Date: Feb 18, 2012