Do I have to manually mount my network drives?

I've set up a couple of partitions on a USB disk attached to my AEBS. One of the partitions is being used for time machine across a few different machines.
Should I have to manually mount the network drives each time I start my machines? I've see time machine errors involving the backup disk not being found and I'm wondering about the details around the network drives use.
TIA,
David

I didn't
my clock changed to wintertime
and my alarms and appointments use timespans so they start at lets say 14:00 no matter if I go to usa and adjust my clock to match their time or if I go to china and adjust my time to match their time

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