Multiple mounting of network disk not wanted

I use a MacPro with 10.5.8 and a LaCie network disk. On this machine are several users which I want to give shared access to the information on the LaCie disk.
I kept having trouble with access and found that each user mounts a different device (/Volumes/disk, /Volumes/disk-1, /Volumes/disk-2, etc.). I have had several months of discussions with LaCie help desk without any results and have given up on them.
A possible side effect of the current method of connecting is also that each user has to re-connect after each login
I have looked at the forum entries for multiple mounts and these all seem to be connected to partitioned disks, which is not the case here. And I frankly don't understand enough of these posts to use that information for this specific question.
How to set up a transparent and reliable disk connection with a single mount?
Regards,
Bob

Hey there!
Well now your post is over one year old but recently I had the same problem.
Solution was what you were thinking: Redirect the path. But where??? I searched the registry and there you have it:
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Common 8.0\Media Cache
There's a key called FolderPath. Set that to a local drive and Premiere should start again.
btw adobe: that's really a bad bad bug or misbehaviour. if something is not working software should ask for another solution instead of just crash...

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