Re: Re: External drive....Retain share after reboot?! Help!!

[David <ukha@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:08:48 -0000, "noel_pilot"
<HA@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>I'm such a muppet!! Have just realised also that as long as the
>external drive is connected and powered up before the pc boots into
>windows then the share is also retained!

This was the conclusion I came to some while ago for the drives that I
share - as a result these drives have been on continuously for the
last couple of years (well actually, I recently got one of those
master/slave socket blocks so at least they now turn off when the PC
is off).

Your question prompted me to look into this again, and I found that if
you mount the drive as an NTFS mount point ("Mount in the following
empty NTFS folder" - you can do this as well as a drive letter, if you
want) and then share the mount point, the share remains even if the
USB drive is not attached at startup. Makes sense really - what you
are actually sharing is a directory on your C: drive, that maps to the
USB drive when it is attached.

Thanks for giving me the impetus to find this out - hope it helps you
as well!

David.

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