Seeing an external drive via ethernet?

I have an 80 gb external drive hooked up to an EMac. No problem accessing thru there, but I need to access when my PB G4 is hooked up via ethernet. I can see the drive on the EMac hard drive, but get the message;
cannot be found, Insert disk/ connect to the server and wait for it to appear on the desktop
My PB will not see the drive when hooked up directly (USB), power issue?
I would like to just log in and access. Is this possible?

In a regular Mac OS X client installation, when connected via Ethernet, your external drive is not shared - therefore it will not be visible to another computer on the network (ie. your PowerBook). Only Mac OS X Server has the extra sharing capabilities.
However you can still enable sharing of external drives, without having to buy Mac OS X Server, simply by using the donationware utility SharePoints. It will allow you to share just about anything on your Mac.
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