How to maintain or restablish connectivity from Switch to HP/Indigo press

aapl · Post by **aapl** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:04 pm

Hi All,

We're running Switch on a Mac and direct Switch output to Press's Jobs volume mounted on the desktop. However, this volume disappears with reboots of the press. Are there any options to reestablish connectivity to the press short of manually doing a command-K and logging back in to mount it?

thanks,

Roger

manupapet · Post by **manupapet** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 5:45 pm

Hi Roger,

Don't use mount volume but use absolute path in switch, for example :

HP_IndigoHotfolderIn

Sincerly yours

Emmanuel

aapl · Post by **aapl** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:31 pm

Hi Emmanuel, that path is just for windows, right? I don't think that works for Mac? - Roger

manupapet · Post by **manupapet** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 8:11 am

Hi Roger,

Sorry i don't see, it's mac switch.

Perhaps problem with enfocus and afp/smb network.

A solution maybe connect your HP volume in your switch flow with

1. applescript :

for example i find this in http://hints.macworld.com forum :

tell application "Terminal"

activate

do script ¬

"diskutil unmount "/Volumes/YOURVOLUME"" in ¬

"diskutil mount "/Volumes/YOURVOLUME"" in ¬

window frontmost

delay 5

quit

end tell

2. Automator :

tell application "Finder"

try

mount volume "smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@SERVER/SHARENAME"

delay 1

end try

end tell

I wish I help you.

Emmanuel

PS : sorry for my english, I'm French

freddyp · Post by **freddyp** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:06 am

In the Switch Preferences there is a section "Remount volumes". There you can specify what volumes Switch has to mount automatically. Just add your volume there and when it disappears because of a reboot Switch will automatically mount it again when it is available.

Freddy

tz8 · Post by **tz8** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:11 pm

at least in theory, but even with these settings in place connections keep getting lost and you need to right click -> reconnect the remote folder for the flow to finally work again - which is kinda frustrating as this mostly always happens at night on the weekends

take this as a warning, it's not as reliable as it promises to be!

Cheers,

Thorsten

aapl · Post by **aapl** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:06 pm

Thanks!

mwinker · Post by **mwinker** » Wed Feb 20, 2013 2:32 pm

We chased that problem for a long time. we finally ended up creating a share folder on the Switch Mac (with read/write permission for the Indigo), then making the Indigo Hotfolder in that share folder. Since the hotfolder is created by the Indigo we then had to adjust the permissions of the hotfolder so that switch could access and place files in the hotfolder. Since switch is always on and sometimes the Indigo might be offline overnight, it was the more logical path. The Indigo then automatically mounts the Switch hotfolder on startup.