External hard drive being accessed wirelessly, any way to auto re-mount?

Hello, I have an external hard drive connected via firewire to an iMac running Panther 10.3.9. It is being accessed wirelessly by a MacBook running 10.4.10 for auto backups. Everything works great, except when either computer is shut down, or when the MacBook is taken out of our home network, I have to remember to manualy re-mount (wirelessly) the firewire drive on the MacBook or else the backup program will not find the destination drive. I have the computers starting/waking automatically 15 minutes prior to the scheduled backup.
Is there a way to have the external drive automatically re-mount over the network to the MacBook? Can Automator help with this?

Try this.
Connect to the remote volume you want to auto-mount and select "Remember password in keychain".
Once the volume appears on you desktop, open System Preferences and go to the Accounts pane. Select the "Login Items" tab on the right. Drag the icon from the desktop of the remote volume into the Login Items window. You don't have to check "Hide".
Close System Preferences. When you startup the computer the remote volume should appear on the desktop.
Hope this helps.

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