USB Drive and Windows XP

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From: Old Timer (oldtimeforeverREMOVETHIS_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 05/11/04 

Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 07:53:54 -0400

I am embarrassed to bring this up since I had the solution before, but lost
it with a hard drive that self destructed:

I have a USB drive, which I do not use all the time, and want the network to
recognize it each time I boot it up. However, each time I use the drive I
have to reset the shares etc for the network. Is there a method of having a
network recognize a USB drive on the fly?

Windows XP Home & Professional, Windows networking and PCMACLAN.

The last time I asked this, there was a bat file that took care of it.

Thanks, all.

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