Auto connect to network disk

Is there a way to set the network disk connected the USB port on the AIrport extream base station to auto connect on boot up? When I shut down the iMac or reboot the shared network disk has to be manually connected. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

td - thanks for the reply. i will try it when i get access to the machines again. i initially did have sharing from the Users/Shared folder, and it worked great - except if someone edited something while the library was open on another person's computer. then the database would be corrupted and would only open on the machine that just saved it (which is odd). if library is shared from this folder, will iPhoto 8.0.2 give a warning message and prevent access as the apple doc claims?
also curious - why then does apple say the sparse format is not required, but is recommended?
+From the Format menu choose read/write disk image or sparse disk image (recommended).+

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