Can't connect/mount firewire drive wirelessly

My G4 tower has all my firewire drives connected to it. I usually connect to the drives wirelessly from my macbook pro. For some reason, there's one drive that will not mount, although it appears on the G4 desktop just fine. Getting info on the drive reveals that it's a MS-DOS (Fat-32) file system, and for whatever reason, I can't change the ownership/permissions on it as with other drives.
Any ideas of things to try?

This program you recommend is fugly and complicated...
You should see the other way to do it!
Most likely...
When the 1st screen comes up, look for the Browse button, select the FAT drive, give it a Share Name, click the Windows (SMB) sharing bar & select Shared , enter your admin PW, click on "Show File System Properties", check Inherit Permissins, give the rights you need...
Any more questions after you Update Share...

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