automounting usb hardrive on bootup?

[Ferindo Middleton]

I have an external usb hard drive. When I login using gnome it appears in
"Places" in the "Computer" icon but it doesn't appear to automount
itself to
the file system because in I have it as an Samba share and it is only
available to Samba connections to the device until after someone tries to
use it locally from the server itself. How do I get it to automount itself
to the server on bootup, and further, how do I limit access to only the root
account or people in the root group?

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just ferindo