I recently bought a case to throw an external hard drive into. It works fine, but I'm having an issue with the drive sharing. When I start the drive, I want Windows to automatically detect it and share it over my network. Does anyone know how I can go about doing that? Currently, what I have to do is right-click the drive and do a share, but that's a bit tedious and annoying.

Assuming you could do that, that would mean, anyone could plug in a drive anywhere on the netwwork that contains a virus and infect the whole network. Thereby bypassing all network security. Not a very smart move.

Well, first off, it's a private home network. Secondly, only one computer will be able to share drives, and that computer is locked unless I'm personally there. Third, I'm not worried about it anyway. So, anyone have any ideas?

Map drive is a normal way. I assume you have an embedded linux os running this gizmo and you used a web based setup to configure the samba shares? I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.