Networked FireWire Drive Mounts Inconsistenly

It's the oddest thing... My (Lacie) FireWire partitions appear on my Airport networked iBook on the rarest of occasions, as after a Disk Utility diagnostic and restart on the iMac hosting them. Then, after one session of blissful connection they retreat from Network access. I tried setting up SharePoints with no success, and I've seen them mount long before I ever heard of SharePoints, just not consistently. Last night I mounted a partition on the iBook then, after a logout and back in on the iMac it was gone and would not come back up, even though the login on hosting iMac was back to what it was before.
Logins and permissions, no doubt. We use only two, admin accounts on the iMac and one admin (same as iMac) on the iBook. What gives?

UPDATE:
OK, I did an erase and install of OS X Server 10.4 on the internal hard drive of this machine and updated to 10.4.9. The drive still does not show up on the desktop but if I choose Go to Folder ... and type in /Volumes, the drive is there but has a transparent icon. I can click on it and get to the files but I cannot get it to mount on the server desktop or on any OS X client machines. On my OS X client machines I can similarly go to the /Volumes folder and get at the drive that way. For now, I've manually created an alias on each client but there has to be a way to fix it.
FYI, Apple System Profiler on the server reports:
OXFORD IDE Device LUN 0:
Manufacturer: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd.
Model: 0x1
GUID: 0x30E0F4E010B5B8
Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Connection Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Sub-units:
OXFORD IDE Device LUN 0 Unit:
Unit Software Version: 0x10483
Unit Spec ID: 0x609E
Firmware Revision: 0x138
Product Revision Level: 3.03
Sub-units:
OXFORD IDE Device LUN 0 SBP-LUN:
Capacity: 372.61 GB
Removable Media: Yes
BSD Name: disk1
OS9 Drivers: Yes
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Volumes:
External 400 HD:
Capacity: 372.49 GB
Available: 288.22 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: HFS+
BSD Name: disk1s10
Mount Point: /Volumes/External 400 HD
Does this shed any more light?
Please help!

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