How can I share/access a second hard drive on my 'puter?

Actually, the second drive is on my G4 running Tiger; it's Drive2 because it's not the boot drive, and I'd like it to be available to everyone in the house, but especially me. I'll access it from my MacBook(10.6), the other folks from the G4 itself. But when I'm on the MacBook, the Drive2 is never even visible as a target when I try to connect. That's the first thing I'd like to fix. Later we can figure out privacy/ownership issues for the files we put there.
From the MacBook, I can logon to the G4's boot drive as a guest—which seems to happen automatically, but only accesses public folders—or as a User of one of the accounts on it, but I don't get Drive2 either way. I accidentally discovered that if I connect as admin I do get an option to see both drives, but not to access my files on Drive2, nor my own account on the boot drive; I just get to mess about in the admin account, as one would expect. But if I sit at the G4 and logon I can see and use both drives. I have mucked with ownerships and 'Ignore ownerships …' to a dangerous degree, and no suucess. It would be a kindness if someone could tell me the default settings I should have recorded.
What must/can I do to make the second drive a free-for-all-users place in my tiny wee home network? Since it already is accessible for anyone on the G4, that question actually reduces to: How can I make the second, non-boot HD on a Tiger G4 available to a user on a SnowLeopard MacBook?
I know there's a place for this question in the Tiger forums, but I have to start somewhere, and double-posting's not helpful.

Right-click the volume icon and select Encrypt... from the popup menu.

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