How do I share an external drive between OSX 10.3 and 10.5?

My setup is a external drive (FAT) connected via firewire to an ibook g3 using OSX10.3. I have installed sharepoints on that mac. Now, I can see and use the ibook g3 share on my ibook g4 using OSX10.5 , but not the external drive. I can access the drive through my Windows PC.
I have tried making an alias of the external drive, but that doesn't work. Leopard just says the source to the alias cannot be found.
Help, thanks!

I don't have any issues connection to a server running 10.4 using sharepoints for the external drives.
try using the server's ip address on your leopard mac
from the finder press command + K and enter the servers ip address. It should then give you a window with all the available sharepoints on that server.

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