Accessing Firewire Drives on a Mac from a Networked PC

Hello everyone!
I recently set up a network consisting of my mac and a pc. It works fine, but I am trying to access files on my mac external hard drives from the PC.
On a PC this would be easy enough to do, namely just right click and press share this folder. When I called apple support, they said there is no built in OSX way of doing something like this. He suggested that someone on the boards might know a trick or a 3rd party utility to make this work.
So I was wondering... Is there any way to access external hard drives on a mac from a networked pc in any way? Help is much appreciated! Thanks in advance.
Marko
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

hi marko
SharePoints.
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