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Accessing files on network drive using mac osx x11?
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24 Oct 2007 07:30 AM
    I have a server set up to store the large amounts of data that we gather and it need to be processed. i have set-up both FTP and Samba (SMB) access to the drives. In Mac OS X i am able to connect to the drive(s) upload and download files fine. however when running my IDL-VM *.sav file (in X11) i can not access the drives. the alias folders i have set up on the desktop do not show up, nor does the drive in the /volumes folder. i have also tried dragging the files from the finder, to the termial to get the direct path, and that does not seem to work. has anyone else out there had any sucess in accessing files stored on their netword though x11? thanks -niccolo aieta colorado school of mines

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    24 Oct 2007 07:30 AM
    It is possible that IDL (or perhaps X11) uses methods for querying the file system that is not able to interpret some network file paths or some aliases; I don't know. I myself would start my testing with a call to:

    IDL> file = dialog_pickfile( )

    and see if the X11/Motif file chooser dialog is able to find your aliased path. You might also open another X11 application (try "xedit") and see if its 'File -> Open ...' dialog is able to do any better than IDL.

    If you have FTP access set up, though, how about trying out IDL's new (since version 6.4) 'IDLnetURL' class library? An example of how to do this is shown in Tech Tip #4246 ("Using the 'IDLnetURL' Class to Execute an FTP GET"

    If that works, you might avoid the time needed to debug your network file system aliases.

    James Jones

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