How to share an external hard drive on my mac with my ipad

with some apps like aceplayer or filebrowser, I can get files from my mac but not from my external hard drive witch is usb plugged to my mac.
Is os x server the answer? would it allow access to my extern drive?
thank you for your help
alex

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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