Thank you all for the input...    Everyone except for Steve "change
everyone's name to russp" Crossman.  ;-)

I want to deploy this as a method for about 300 employees with various
levels of computer skills so I hope to create a small drag and drop utility
that you can drag a folder or file from a server to (hope drag and drop
works with folders too - haven't looked into that yet) and it will either
create an AFP link icon on the desktop or stick the AFP link in the
clipboard ready to pasted in-line into the text of an email.

I'm sure I'll be back with more questions.

Thanks

russp