Accessing an External HD via OSX Server

Hi
I've got a brand spanking mac mini running OSX Server 10.5 for a small (3 people) office
and I've attached an external HD to bump up the HD space but cannot figure out how to
remotely access it! Every time we connect we find the shared drives as usual but nothing else
and I've gone through all the help files and forum but to no avail!
So can I access this drive and if so how, also can I move the shared mounted folders to the external as we want to keep the MacMini HD clean and just target the external for all work/access
Any help would be appreciated as this is driving me mad (amongst other things!)
Thanks

You use Server Admin to create shares - define which directories on disk are shared and via which protocol(s).
In Server Admin, connect to your server then click the File Sharing icon in the toolbar. Now click the 'Browse' button and select a drive/directory to share. Use the options at the bottom of the pane to set the sharepoint rules.
The confusion is likely to be that File Sharing defaults to showing the list of currently defined sharepoints and it isn't obvious that you have to switch to Browse in order to see other directories to share (are you listening Apple Server UI team? )

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