Mac OS 10.3.8 running on 15" Titanium PowerBook:

I connect to a remote computer via AppleTalk. After icon of remote
machine appears on desktop, I make an alias of it. Eject remote. Click
on alias, connection dialog opens. Type in username and password and
the connection to remote computer is made.

However, if I drag the alias to the Dock and click on its icon in the
Dock, the connection dialog opens but I can not type in my password.
The cursor stays put, no little black dots. Why? This used to work
fine under Jaguar and every OS before it.

Thanks,
Howard

In article <refried-301D66.11001021032005@news1.isis.unc.edu>,
Howard Fried <refried@email.unc.edu> wrote:

> Mac OS 10.3.8 running on 15" Titanium PowerBook:
>
> I connect to a remote computer via AppleTalk. After icon of remote
> machine appears on desktop, I make an alias of it. Eject remote. Click
> on alias, connection dialog opens. Type in username and password and
> the connection to remote computer is made.
>
> However, if I drag the alias to the Dock and click on its icon in the
> Dock, the connection dialog opens but I can not type in my password.
> The cursor stays put, no little black dots. Why? This used to work
> fine under Jaguar and every OS before it.
>
> Thanks,
> Howard

Dunno, since essentially the same setup works for me on a flatpanel iMac
G4 w/ 10.3.8 .
If you take the icon back out of the dock (or just open it directly in
its folder), do things work again?

In article <carl-7E7B33.17151121032005@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
Carl Witthoft <carl@witthoft.com> wrote:

> In article <refried-301D66.11001021032005@news1.isis.unc.edu>,
> Howard Fried <refried@email.unc.edu> wrote:
>
> > Mac OS 10.3.8 running on 15" Titanium PowerBook:
> >
> > I connect to a remote computer via AppleTalk. After icon of remote
> > machine appears on desktop, I make an alias of it. Eject remote. Click
> > on alias, connection dialog opens. Type in username and password and
> > the connection to remote computer is made.
> >
> > However, if I drag the alias to the Dock and click on its icon in the
> > Dock, the connection dialog opens but I can not type in my password.
> > The cursor stays put, no little black dots. Why? This used to work
> > fine under Jaguar and every OS before it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Howard
>
> Dunno, since essentially the same setup works for me on a flatpanel iMac
> G4 w/ 10.3.8 .
> If you take the icon back out of the dock (or just open it directly in
> its folder), do things work again?

As a general matter, are you supposed to put aliases in the Dock? Or
are you supposed to drag real apps, folders and documents into the Dock?
(which then makes some kind of pseudo "Dock alias", which doesn't seem
to be a real alias, but acts a lot like one)

My impression is, it's the latter . . .

In article <siegman-183D6C.16390921032005@news.stanford.edu>,
AES <siegman@stanford.edu> wrote:

> In article <carl-7E7B33.17151121032005@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
> Carl Witthoft <carl@witthoft.com> wrote:
>
> > In article <refried-301D66.11001021032005@news1.isis.unc.edu>,
> > Howard Fried <refried@email.unc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > Mac OS 10.3.8 running on 15" Titanium PowerBook:
> > >
> > > I connect to a remote computer via AppleTalk. After icon of remote
> > > machine appears on desktop, I make an alias of it. Eject remote. Click
> > > on alias, connection dialog opens. Type in username and password and
> > > the connection to remote computer is made.
> > >
> > > However, if I drag the alias to the Dock and click on its icon in the
> > > Dock, the connection dialog opens but I can not type in my password.
> > > The cursor stays put, no little black dots. Why? This used to work
> > > fine under Jaguar and every OS before it.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Howard
> >
> > Dunno, since essentially the same setup works for me on a flatpanel iMac
> > G4 w/ 10.3.8 .
> > If you take the icon back out of the dock (or just open it directly in
> > its folder), do things work again?
>
> As a general matter, are you supposed to put aliases in the Dock? Or
> are you supposed to drag real apps, folders and documents into the Dock?
> (which then makes some kind of pseudo "Dock alias", which doesn't seem
> to be a real alias, but acts a lot like one)
>
> My impression is, it's the latter . . .

Hmmm...I hadn't thought about the fact that an alias may not belong in
the Dock, since, as I mentioned before, this worked fine under OS 10.2.8.

In article <refried-8DBA63.09351922032005@news1.isis.unc.edu>,
Howard Fried <refried@email.unc.edu> wrote:

> In article <siegman-183D6C.16390921032005@news.stanford.edu>,
> AES <siegman@stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> > In article <carl-7E7B33.17151121032005@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
> > Carl Witthoft <carl@witthoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In article <refried-301D66.11001021032005@news1.isis.unc.edu>,
> > > Howard Fried <refried@email.unc.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Mac OS 10.3.8 running on 15" Titanium PowerBook:
> > > >
> > > > I connect to a remote computer via AppleTalk. After icon of remote
> > > > machine appears on desktop, I make an alias of it. Eject remote.
> > > > Click
> > > > on alias, connection dialog opens. Type in username and password and
> > > > the connection to remote computer is made.
> > > >
> > > > However, if I drag the alias to the Dock and click on its icon in the
> > > > Dock, the connection dialog opens but I can not type in my password.
> > > > The cursor stays put, no little black dots. Why? This used to work
> > > > fine under Jaguar and every OS before it.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Howard
> > >
> > > Dunno, since essentially the same setup works for me on a flatpanel iMac
> > > G4 w/ 10.3.8 .
> > > If you take the icon back out of the dock (or just open it directly in
> > > its folder), do things work again?
> >
> > As a general matter, are you supposed to put aliases in the Dock? Or
> > are you supposed to drag real apps, folders and documents into the Dock?
> > (which then makes some kind of pseudo "Dock alias", which doesn't seem
> > to be a real alias, but acts a lot like one)
> >
> > My impression is, it's the latter . . .
>
> Hmmm...I hadn't thought about the fact that an alias may not belong in
> the Dock, since, as I mentioned before, this worked fine under OS 10.2.8.

Looking at ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist, it looks like the
dock just stores the pathname to the item. My _guess_ would be that the
mechanism for launching a dock item may not respect the alias (or
symlink?) redirection.

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Tom Stiller

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