Mounting drives on the desktop for all users

Hi
Is there a way of mounting drives ( like USB pens) on the desktop for all users please?
It's a causing a lot of confusion here... you think the USB drives aren't working when you can't see them being mounted in front of you.
I do realise you can set this in Finder/Preferences but I wondered if there were a way of just making it the default for any user that logs in ( whether locally or to the domain).
Thanks for your assistance.

micromike wrote:
Thanks for your help Barney.
Hmmmm....why would anyone disable this basic thing?
Here's a reason. I don't use the Desktop, so why would I want the drives to pop up on my desktop.
They appear in my Sidebar in any Finder window.
That's why I turned it off on my system. You'd have to ask the 1000 users why they turned it off.
However, I'm not sure I understand what you want. If you mount a usb drive on your system, and share it out over the network, it is not a Hard Drive on any network user's desktop. It is a network share.

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