On or about 6/15/03 9:13 PM James Rohde AKA [EMAIL PROTECTED] eruditely mused the following:
>>>Anyone know what breaks in 9.2 regarding Emailer initiating a remote >>>access dial up connection? >>If initiate an internet connection is enough, you just have to allow >>Remote Access to open a connecion when an application wants a net >>connection. Check "options" in RC panel. The only way to make this work automatically is to use an AppleScript that calls the correct software. About two years ago I started a script that Mark Johnson modified drastically and it seems to work for some people. By way of explanation I quote an old email here that explains most of what happened and why you now need to ask "Network Setup Scripting" to make the connection and forget about "Remote Access". Quote: The following was written in a Mac OS 9.1 report at macfixit.com and may interest some of you who use any Remote Access/PPP scripts. >quote Remote Access scripting problems: a reply from Apple Larry Rosenstein sent us a copy of this message from Chris Espinosa at Apple, in response to Larry pointing out that any script relying on the Remote Access commands scripting addition is broken as of Mac OS 9.1 (see also the previous item): "We moved the functionality of the Remote Access Commands scripting addition into Network Setup Scripting several versions ago, in Mac OS 8.6. As with most product obsolescence plans, we "staged" its removal from the OS. We removed the Remote Access Commands from the standard Mac OS install in Mac OS 9.1 because it's incompatible with Remote Access 4.0. For Mac OS 9.1, Remote Access was completely rewritten, and in its new form it does not use the Apple Shared Library Manager (ASLM). But the Remote Access Commands scripting addition was originally written to access ARA through ASLM, so when it tries to, and fails, it assumes the problem is with ASLM (which it is not). Because the Remote Access Commands functionality was put into Network Setup Scripting several years ago, the Remote Access team decided not to rewrite Remote Access Commands to not use ASLM. This didn't show up in the AppleScript release notes because it was considered a change to ARA, not AppleScript (we don't document all scripting changes to all scriptable OS components in our release notes; it'd be too huge). Remote Access Commands are not installed in Mac OS 9.1, but if you install 9.1 over a previous system, the Installer doesn't remove it. (There's plenty of debate over whether this is the correct thing to do or not.) The solution for Remote Access scripters is to rewrite scripts to use Network Setup Scripting instead. There are plenty of examples in the Open Transport (Networking) AppleScript Guidebook modules. These scripts will work on 9.1, 9.0.4, 8.6, and 8.6." Several readers have found that reverting to the 3.5 version of Remote Access (from Mac OS 9.0.4) is at least a partial work-around. Eric Rosenbloom replies: "This response to use Network Setup Scripting to control Remote Access does not quite solve all problems. I use a script that includes telling Network Setup Scripting to get the status of a Remote Access configuration. It hangs there unless Remote Access is disabled (an impractical solution) or ARA is downgraded from 4.0 to 3.5." Remote Access "Use protocol" dropped On a related note: The "Use protocol" popup menu is gone from Remote Access's Options/Protocol window. PPP is now the only supported protocol. >end quote Karl Webmaster for: IAS, Irish Airmail Society: http://members.aol.com/karlfranzw/AirmailSociety.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Share the message NOT the addresses. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please use BCC not TO or CC when forwarding or emailing several people. Would you really like me to distribute your unlisted telephone number? Basically it's the same thing and increases the Spam we all get. For email netiquette tips go here: <http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/65mailet.htm> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
