[DayLateDon]

Hello ...


I'm looking to create a small application to help facilitate transfer of files to users' drop boxes on the network.

For users housed on our central server (or among any users on a particular Mac), this is pretty trivial, since I just have to scan the "Users" folder for names; a simple AppleScript can "move" a file into the corresponding Drop Box.

But I'm not sure how to identify users on other physical machines.

If all Macs have Personal Web Sharing turned on, then I can set up a Rendezvous browser to "listen for" http services, then parse the returned data for a list of machines and users. (I suppose from there I would try to silently mount the remote Mac and make any transfer to the Drop Box.)

Is there a more straightforward way to get at this information? (And a straightforward way to silently mount the remote server to make the transfer?)

I've scanned through the IANA list of published protocols (http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers) but I'm not sure which one OS X might broadcast "naturally".


Thanks and regards,

DayLateDon

[Gul Banana]

None of them. Mac OS X doesn't run any external services by default, for security reasons.