Mounting USB drive over network

Hello,
I'm working through an issue that I don't quite understand, I think. Here's my setup.
iBook G3 running 10.4.7
iMac G4 running 10.4.7
Airport Express (both computers connecting wirelessly)
My Book external USB 250Gb Drive connected to the iMac G4
I'm trying to access the My Book drive with the iBook using the "Connect to Server" selection on the "Go" finder menu. I type in the local IP of the iMac and it asks me how I want to connect. (Guest or Registered)
I choose registered, and use the username and password of the admin account on the iMac. It presents me with the user folder and the hard drive volume as well as any disk images that I might have loaded (a downloaded .dmg, for instance) but the USB drive never shows up in the list of volumes to mount.
I downloaded Share Points and added the drive to the list of shared volumes, then restarted the iMac, but it still does not come up in the list when I try connecting to the iMac from the iBook. I'm not real confident that I have Share Points set up correctly, I haven't spent enough time to wrap my head around exactly what that software is trying to do.
Any ideas as to where I've gone wrong?
Is there a better way to go about doing this?
It's a hassle to switch the drive back and forth to either machine as I want to work on one or the other. All the cords limit mobility on the laptop as well.
I should like to leave the drive connected to the iMac and use the files with either computer.

trying checking or unchecking the "Ignore Ownership
on this volume" box when you "get info" (file menu)
on the firewire drive.
I don't seem to have this option. It sounded promising, nonetheless... The Disk Utility also doesn't mention this.
Does it matter that it's a FAT32 volume? I hadn't thought to include this initially... If it does, and it's not possible, then I can give up, as I don't have another drive to back up to and reformat the one I'd like to use. Perhaps this will result in finally getting a dreamy LaCie drive... =)

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