How do I make an external hard drive available to all users?

Hi,
I have the following situation. I have an external hard drive that is conected to Airport Extreme. I have a MacBook Pro with 2 users and would like to make this drive availble to both. For user A, I went into Login Items and added the drive as a Volume. When I log in as user A, the drive is auto mounted with no problems. However, if I switch to user B, the drive has already been mounted under /Volumes/Elements with permissions for user A, so obviously user B can't access it, nor is it possible for this user to try and mount it. Is there a way to auto mount the drive so that its availble to both users?

You're trying to use the drive as a server but as "ds store" implied, it's not a server nor is it a NAS drive, so it cannot handle more than one user at a time. You might be able to do what you want if you install Mac OS X server software on it, but I can't be sure of this as I've never used that software. I understand that the Lion version is supposed to be fairly easy to configure.

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