Problem sharing FAT32 drive over network

I have a mac mini running Mac OS X Server 10.4.11. It has three external drives connected to it (two running firewire and one usb).
The first firewire (HFS+) is visible throughout the network and appears in the sharing section of Workgroup Manager. The other firewire (FAT32) and usb (FAT32) are seen on the desktop of the server and there is no problem reading and writing to them but they don't show up when I want to add them as a sharepoint. Is it not possible to share a FAT32 drive? Permissions on these drives are correct and read, write access is enabled.
I have a MBP and a Powerbook G4 on the network which need to access files on the FAT32 formatted drive and backup to them as well. Any help in this matter is appreciated.

Are the sharepoints you're seeking here using AFS or SMB services, or a mixture?
Any Windows boxes in the mixture? If not, have you tried reformatting one of the drives as HFS+ and exporting that, if you don't need the FAT volume structure? (FAT32 is really "FAT28" internally, but I digress.) If you can run HFS+ and export as AFS and it works for your needs, that's a path out of here.

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