Networked Drive Mounting (or not..)

Ever since installing Leopard, I am no longer able to access any external drives connected to my PowerMac G5 from my MacBook Pro. The MacBook Pro is running 10.5.1, while the G5 is running the latest version of Tiger. Pre-Leopard I could choose the external drives to mount to my MacBook Pro, but now I can only mount users and internal drives. Any ideas on what is causing this?(side note: there are 2 drives, on Mac OSX Extended and the other FAT-32, neither will show up.)
Thanks much.
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Sorry missed that critical point!
I've just checked our 2 G4's and I've added an external drive to each of them and can see the external volume in Leopard's finder.
The only attributes that I can think of that might affect your access are the type of user login used (I used an Administrator account) and the "Ignore Ownership" attribute for the external volumes (found in Get Info for a volume). ie. it's checked on ours.
HTH

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