No longer able to mount drives attached to G5 on network

Hi all,
I hope someone can help with this issue. I have a G5 which has additional USB and SATA drives attached to it. My MacBook Pro used to connect to the G5 through my Belkin Router either over cable or wireless. If I went to Network > G5 on the MacBook Pro, I was given the option to mount 3 volumes on the G5 - the HD, and the two external drives.
Last week I added a Airport Extreme base station. Now on the MacBook Pro, when I go to Network > G5 it will only show me the G5 Hard drive, and no longer gives me the option to mount the other volumes. I cannot even type the addresses in manually. On one of these additional volumes is all my music, and my Apple TV can still stream from this so the volume must be visible somewhere.
I went into Sharing on the G5 and also noticed Personal File Sharing is unticked. If I tick it or press Start it just does nothing, so I can no longer set this up - unsure if this is related.
Any help gratefully received!
Kind Regards
Craig Sawyer

Hi Craig, and welcome to the discussions,
First we need to figure out the unable to tick thing, I'd start with getting Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, then when the prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
If that doesn't cure that problem, try dragging these files to the desktop & reboot...
/Users/nnnn/Library/Preferences/com.apple.internetconnect.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist
Once we fix it, Sharepoints is the best way to insure Sharing of External Drives...
http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/

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