"Connect as . . . " and USB drives

Using Leopard, I use to be able to connect to a remote computer using a Admin user login information and get access to the USB drives connected to my Mac Pro. Now with Snow Leopard, I only have access to the startup drive. Is there any way to re-enable the sharing of external USB hard drives in Snow Leopard?

With Leopard, I never had to add the external USB drive to the Sharing System Preference panel. Just in case, I opened the Get Info window for the USB drive and selected "Share Folder." After doing so, the drive appeared in the Sharing System Preference panel. Unfortunately, it did not help.
My Mac Pro has two internal drives and two external drives. I am connecting to it from my Macbook on the road using Back to My Mac. I can see the Mac Pro and can connect to it, but when I do, I can only access the Mac Pro's start up disk. The other internal and both external drives are not available.
Just in case it has something to do with the WAN (though it always worked fine with Leopard), I used Back to My Mac to view the screen of a Mac Mini I also have on my home network. Taking control of the Mac Mini, I used the Finder to connect to my Mac Pro. Though both the Mini and the Mac Pro are on the same network, I still only have access to the Mac Pro's start up disk.

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I've been backing up my iMac to an external HDD while I waited to get my TC replaced (blew the PSU about a month ago and I've been lazy about getting it fixed). Now that my replacement 500Gb TC has arrived, I'd like to continue with the current TM backup I have. Can I simply unplug the USb drive from the iMac and plug it into the USB port on the back of the TC? I know I can backup to the drive from scratch, but I want to be able to continue using the backup I already have. I know Time Machine over wired/wireless uses a sparsebundle instead and that a USb doesn't, so will there be an issue?
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I recently purchased a Lenovo ideapad U510 with Windows 8. I bought it as a returned machine but the Staples employee didn't know why it had been returned and thought it was just because the buyer didn't like Windows 8. When I first set it up I kept getting an error message that my usb device was not recognized, even though I had never plugged anything in. As I was leaving the country, I dismissed the issue and decided to deal w/ it when I returned to the US, since my other usb drives worked fine.
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I am certain it is a hardware issue from the problems youre describing. I would contact Lenovo. They may try to have you purchase their "software" support, but don't let them. I had wifi issues and they tried to make me spend $90 because I was too lazy to figure it out on my own.
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Problem with creating Connection pool and JNDI, driver is not detected

Hi,
I have an issue with creating Connection Pool and JNDI.
I'm using:
- JDK 1.6
- OS: Linux(ubuntu 8.10)
- Netbeans IDE 6.5.1
- Java EE 5.0
- Apache Tomcat 6.0.18 Its lib directory contains all necessary jar files for Oracle database driver
- Oracle 11g Enterprise
My problem is that the Oracle database driver is not detected when I want to create a pool (it works pretty well and is detected without any problem when I create ordinary connection by DriverManager)
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InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
Context context = (Context)ic.lookup("java:comp/env");
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at servlets.Servlet1.doGet(Servlet1.java:29)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
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at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
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at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
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at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
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at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
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at sun.misc.Launcher$ExtClassLoader.findClass(Launcher.java:229)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:169)
at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:1130)
... 17 more
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context path="/WebApplication3">
<Resource auth="Container"
                  driverClassName="oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver"
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                  maxIdle="4"
                  name="jdbc/oracle11g"
                  username="scott"
                  password="tiger"
                  type="javax.sql.DataSource"
                  url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:database01" />
</Context>and my web.xml is:
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http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=567630&start=0&tstart=0
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=639243&tstart=0
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5312178&tstart=0
, but no solution.
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Has anyone succeeded in creating a connection pool with JNDI by using Tomcat 6 or higher ? If yes, could kindly explain about the applied method.
Regards,

Hello again,
Finally I managed to run my application also with Tomcat 6.0.18. There was only two lines that had to be modified
in the context.xml file (the context of my application project and not server's)
Instead of writing
<Context antiJARLocking="true" path="/WebApplication2">
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<Context antiJARLocking="true" path="/WebApplication2">
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- I just added the ojdbc6.jar in $CATALINA_HOME/lib (I didn't even need to add it in WEB-INF/lib of my project)
- The servlet used to do the test was the same that I presented in my precedent post.
For those who have encountered my problem and are interested in the format of the web.xml and context.xml
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Oracle server: Oracle 11g Enterprise
Tomcat server version: 6.0.18
Oracle driver: ojdbc.jar
IDE: Netbeans 6.5.1
The context.xml file of the web application
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context antiJARLocking="true" path="/WebApplication2">
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              url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:database01"
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</web-app>Ok, now I'm happy as the original problem is completely solved
Regards

Memory leak when using database connectivity toolset and ODBC driver for MySQL

The "DB Tools Close Connection VI" does not free all the memory used when "DB Tools Open Connection VI" connects to "MySQL ODBC Driver 3.51".
I have made a small program that only opens and close the connection that I run continously and it's slowly eating all my memory. No error is given from any of the VI's. (I'm using the "Simple Error Handler VI" to check for errors.)
I've also tried different options in the DSN configuration without any results.
Attachments:
TestProgram.vi ‏16 KB
DSNconfig1.jpg ‏36 KB
DSNconfig2.jpg ‏49 KB

Also,
I've duplicated the OPs example: a simple VI that opens and closes a connection. I can say this definately causes a memory leak.
Watching the memory:
10:17AM - 19308K
10:19AM - 19432K
10:22AM - 19764K
10:58AM - 22124K
Regards,
Ken
Attachments:
OpenCloseConnection.vi ‏13 KB

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