Help! "Select Volumes to Mount" doesn't show G5's local drives

Hello all,
After months of successfully connecting to a computer's hard drive on my local network through the "Connect to Server" function in the Finder, I've recently started having problems.
When I connect, I log in as a registered user on that computer that has administrative privilages. Up until a couple of days ago, I would see 4 available shares: the two user accounts home folders on the G5 and its two internal SATA hard drives. I used to connect directly to the secondary hard drive and store file on it. Now, the two hard drives don't appear in the "Select Volumes to mount" dialogue, and all I have are the two user folders to choose from.
Does anyone have any idea what may have happened? I do know that an external Firewire drive I had hooked up to the computer has been behaving funny recently (freezing the system, etc.) but I disconnected it and the sharing problem didn't resolve itself. It's probably unrelated, but I thought I'd throw it out there.
Thanks for your help!
JQ
G5 PowerMac Mac OS X (10.3.7) 2 user accounts, 2 internal SATA HDs
G5 PowerMac Mac OS X (10.4.5)

I Have similar trouble: I have a ethernet network with a number of macs which I regularly sync with each other
I came up with a peculiar behavior of the type you describe: When I connect to either computer with an administrator pass, I cannot access any other user than my own; volumes on the other hand mount ok.
If I now login with a user that doesn't have administrator privileges, I can't access the volumes on the mac but CAN access ALL users... seems absurd!
I wish apple had a built in filtering system in prefs whereby you could determine who could access what drives from what location with which user (kind of built in security filtering you have in airport & wireless networks
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