Mac Commander Plugin (Legacy Ver 1.1.0)

[Colorado4Wheeler]

I can confirm that the underlying function that plugin uses does, indeed, work on 10.12. I need to set up a few things to test the plugin itself against this but if the underlying method works and the plugin does not it should be fairly easy for me to get the plugin updated.

What are you sharing settings on the destination? You need to have remote login and remote apple events enabled on it so that the Indigo computer is allowed to connect to it.

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[Colorado4Wheeler]

The plugin DOES WORK on 10.11 and higher, no problems. I was able to easily open iTunes from the indigo system to any computer on my network, from El Capitan to High Sierra.

[ckeyes888]

I have the destination machine setup to accept everything.
Pretty sure it’s confirmed in that the plugin works fine under 10.8.

I’ve attached a screen shot of the sharing settings for it.

Thanks,

Carl

[Colorado4Wheeler]

Pretty sure it’s confirmed in that the plugin works fine under 10.8.

It works on all versions of macOS, I've confirmed it.

Does your password have any special characters in it such as backslashes or quotes? Is there a firewall running on the destination? There aren't many things that can prevent this from working, I have dozens of these devices talking to a number of different computers with no issues.

[ckeyes888]

The password on the remote machine is just one character. Hard to imagine it's an issue.
God, I hate upgrading. Never had a single thing go smoothly in my 30 years of this.

Thanks,

Carl

[Colorado4Wheeler]

Try to run the following in AppleScript Editor, if it doesn't work or prompts you for anything then something is wrong with the basics:

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set remMachine to "eppc://YOUR_USERNAME:YOUR_PASSWORD@DESTINATION_IP_ADDRESS"
tell application "Finder" of machine remMachine
	open file "YOUR_VOLUME_NAME:Applications:iTunes"
end tell

It should launch iTunes. Since Mac Commander is based on firing AppleScript there should be little difference (the plugin does more than just this but this is the very basic thing it does).

[ckeyes888]

That script, as far as I know, will not work under 10.12.
I tried this:

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set remMachine to "eppc://Display:[email protected]"
tell application "Finder" of machine remMachine
	open file "Display:Applications:CP Home"
end tell

and always get an application not running error.

Can't imagine how this could ever work.

Thanks,

Carl

[Colorado4Wheeler]

That script, as far as I know, will not work under 10.12.

I've already stated several times that this script DOES work under 10.12. My Indigo server runs 10.12 and this script works just fine and it works on destination computers that are 10.8 all the way through 10.13. If it is not working for you then something else is wrong.

According to what you pasted you are saying that your computer named 'Display' has a volume named 'Display' as well? Generally the hard drive is named 'Macintosh HD' or 'macOS' or something.

[Colorado4Wheeler]

Also, try what I put to see if iTunes will work, we know that application works pretty much globally.

[ckeyes888]

Also tried this one:

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set remMachine to "eppc://Display:[email protected]"
tell application "Finder" of machine remMachine
	open file "Macintosh HD:Applications:CP Home"
end tell

Same result, app not running.

i'll try the iTunes script but don't see it anywhere.

Thanks,

Carl

[ckeyes888]

Also, it would awesome if this method would work but there are a lot of docs online that say the “eppc” approach
no longer works in 10.12.
If it did maybe my original scripts would still work?

Thanks,

Carl

[Colorado4Wheeler]

Not

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open file "Macintosh HD:Applications:CP Home"

But

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open file "YOUR_VOLUME_NAME:Applications:iTunes"

Apple did not break EPPC, it's still there and working just fine. In fact I just read the release notes and Apple hasn't done anything negative to AS like taking away key functionality as far as I can see.

[ckeyes888]

I’m sorry. I don’t understand. The volume name on the remote machine is Macintosh HD.
What should I change it to? Not too interested in what may work with iTunes but happy to test with it.

Thanks,

Carl

[Colorado4Wheeler]

Same result, app not running.

i'll try the iTunes script but don't see it anywhere.

Thanks,

Carl

[ckeyes888]

??

Carl