Time Capsule HDD Mounting Question

Hi all,
First time Mac owner (not user, just took a while to be able to afford one) and I'm loving it for the most part. I have a 2.6 Penryn 17" MBP and a 500 GB Time Capsule. It works great for automatically backing up when plugged in, wireless N routing, even as an external hard drive. Here's my q... Is the Time Capsule hard drive supposed to mount automatically when you join the network? Currently the only way I can access it is to go into a finder window and connect to it (it's listed in the left column, but not connected), and then it will pop the icon for the hard drive onto my desktop. I'd really like to be able to just double click the Time Capsule HDD on my desktop instead of having to mount it manually every time I want to use it as an external HDD. Any help would be appreciated.
Thx,
skorpien

see this tread
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1446928

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