External drive invisible on network

We use an I-mac 400DV (10.3.9 server) for emails and to store the images for our website. When I connect an external drive (LaCie 320G internal raid0 ), i can see and use it normally on the Imac but it remains invisible from the other machines on our local network ( ethernet 10/100). Since the Imac runs a server OS, I was wondering if there is a special setting to activate ? This doesn't seem to be a permissions related issue ....
G4 dual 1.25/ G5 Quad   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

By default, only directories on the internal volume are shared, partly because the OS has no idea in advance what external drives (if any) may be attached.
Since you're running the Server OS, the solution is simple - just run Workgroup Manager and select the Sharing icon. Now you can choose any directory on any volume and make it available via any of the file sharing protocols.

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