Can I share folders from an external USB or Firewire device

I can do this from Windows to Mac, Windows to Windows and Mac to Windows. But for some reason, I cannot get this to work between two Macs.
I have a Maxtor external USB/Firewire hard drive that I have connected to my iMac G5. I have two folders on there - movies and music. I created a non-admin user that has soft-links in its home directory that point to these two folders.
My Windows PC and my Wife's Windows laptop can connect fine over SMB, but when I try to access those same folders from my Powerbook, it complains that the "alias could not be opened because the original item cannot be found".
How can I fix this?

By the way, I am aware of Sharepoint, but this should all be possible without having to buy an extra software interface. Presumably there is a way to configure AFP manually via the terminal or something? I have searched Google and found nothing on this subject.

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