How to share an external drive?

hello helpful mac folks!
I have a PC networked to my mac, and I am able to see my harddrive from it and share the files on that, but I have recently added a firewire external harddrive to my imac and I would like to be able to access one of the partitions on that drive from the PC in the other building. I am able to log onto my home on the imac but cannot see the external. I think I need to tell the external that it can be shared ... how do I do that??
thanks
kt

I've never used Aceplayer or FileBrowser, so I'm not 100% certain about this, but give it a try anyway -- I'm thinking that your Mac isn't set up to share your external HDD on your local network.  See if you can access the external drive on a device other than your iPad to verify that your Mac is indeed sharing the external HDD on your local network (like from a friend's Mac or some other computer of some sort).  Then at least you'll know if it's a problem on your Mac or a problem with the iPad software.
Does FileBrowser require iTunes to be running on the Mac?  Perhaps there's a sharing setting in iTunes somewhere that's preventing you from seeing the external drive?
But like I said, I've never used FileBrowser or Aceplayer, so I'm just taking some shots in the dark here.  Hope it helps...
L.

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