Omniclient from an Obey file

I’m trying to get my system backups to go to a NAS, which I want to power down when not in use. I’ve got WOL working (Thanks Dave Higton). Now I want to automate the equivalent of double-clicking Omni from Apps, then use *omnimount NAS to get the drive mounted.

Using a Run command to run Apps.Omni doesn’t seem to do anything, except that the Omniclient module is added to the list. There is no desktop “Net” icon present.

*desktop_omniclient adds the LanMan module to the list, but otherwise doesn’t help.

*omnimount NAS fails silently.

Can this be scripted? Or should I get a copy of LanMan98 and do it with that instead?

Get LanMan98 anyway, as it’s free and an improvement over LanMan.

Then here’s my copy of an Obey file to run and mount several NAS devices:

IfNTask "LanMan98 Filer" WimpTask <Root$Dir>.Apps.!LanMan98.!Run

Set USBStn1_present No
IfThere LanMan98::USBStn1.$ Then Set USBStn1_present Yes
If "<USBStn1_present>" = "No" Then Connect98 USBStn1 usbstation2 usbshare1 david [password]

Set USBStn2_present No
IfThere LanMan98::USBStn2.$ Then Set USBStn2_present Yes
If "<USBStn2_present>" = "No" Then Connect98 USBStn2 usbstation2 usbshare2 david [password]

Set WDBackup_present No
IfThere LanMan98::WDBackup.$ Then Set WDBackup_present Yes
If "<WDBackup_present>" = "No" Then Connect98 WDBackup wdmycloud1 Backups david [password]

Clearly, substitute your own drive names, share names, passwords, etc.

It’s hardly any different for LanMan.

I’ve had IfNTask for so long that I can’t remember where it’s from, but I think you can see that it’s very useful!

IfNTask is one of the commands within FilerHRun, which is still available from Musus Umbra’s website: http://www.zen22994.zen.co.uk/musus/miscfw.htm

IfNTask is one of the commands within FilerHRun

Thanks. I did try searching but didn’t find anything, so spent some time knocking up a primitive version. If was going well up to the point where I tried to use OSCLI to run the command.

Pasting the command into a task window worked. Using OSCLI produced an abort in the Window Manager.

I’ll use the link instead.