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I am trying to do the following
tell application "Finder"
open location "smb://user:password@filesystem/folder"
end tell
However the password has a ‘<‘ in it and it seems to break the whole command. Running the script does nothing. When I remove the ‘<‘ the script runs but of course the logon fails. I tried doing \< but it didn’t work. Any ideas?
It’s Finder not understanding what to do with the URL. If you escape the < with %3c, it will work. Also, if you’re connecting to a Windows computer or otherwise have to provide a domain name with the user, do it like smb://domain;user:password@host/share. I learned about this from this page.