Do I have to set each external drive as a Share Point?
Hi all,
I was wondering if I can set a Share Point that would allow acces to all external drives (sometimes they are swapped out) It looks like I have to do them individually.
Any advice? Thanks!!!!
Hugh
Last time I tried something similar, when I tried to tell the Finder on the server to eject the external drive prior to disconnecting it, it correctly refused as the drive was considered inuse/busy. I had to unshare the drive first before it would let me eject it.
If you just yank it out there is a chance it will leave things confused and you might end up with it still thinking it is connected and it then writing to a folder in /Volumes on the boot drive thinking it is the external drive. So you should do it properly by unsharing, then ejecting the drive.
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