On Aug 5, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Nathan Sims wrote:

> When a user is logged in, the TimeMachine drive is mounted. When no user is 
> logged in, the drive isn't mounted.

On current versions of OS X non-server, directly attached external drives are 
only mounted at /Volumes when there is a user logged in. Very early in OS X 
this was not the case; Apple changed it around 10.2 or 10.3 IIRC.

On OS X Server, this is not the case; all volumes stay available (depending of 
course on their permission matrix) when there is no user session.

A solution was discovered way back in 2003 on macosxhints; I don't know if it 
works in Lion but a comment in the thread confirms it working in 10.6 :

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20031103155828117_______________________________________________
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