Network Drives/External USB Drives?

If I have a NAS box on the network or a couple of external USB drives connected to computers on my network, will Network Magic "see" them and allow me to share folders on them with the rest of the network?
Thanks...

Cartaphilus1946 wrote:
Thanks for the prompt reply.  I was hoping that since the USB drive will be mapped to a drive letter that it could be shared.  But I guess not.  I may just invest in a NAS interface like the one from Iomega for my USB drives.
Hi Cartaphilus1946,
What type of Interface is being employed by the USB Drives?
If SATA, you could move all the existing files and folders onto the computer, then buy either the D-Link DNS-321 or D-Link DNS-323 which has a built-in FTP Server. They use SATA Hard Drives.
Just a thought.
thecreator - Running Network Magic version -5.5..9195.0-Pure0 on Windows XP Home Edition SP 3
Running Network Magic version -5.5.9195.0-Pure0 on Wireless Computer with McAfee Personal Firewall Build 11.5.131 Wireless Computer has D-Link DWA-552 connecting to D-Link DIR-655 A3 Router.

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