Seeing external drives on imac on macbook runnibng xp

I can see the internal mac drives but cannot access the external drives be it USB or Firewire. NTFS formatted or HFFS. I have macdrive so either way it should not be an issue (formatting).

Get Sharepoints...
http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/
It'll allow you to set the External Drive to a Share, and even who can have what permissions on it.
PS. you were lucky before, only the Internal Drive shows up under Sharing normally... yet a few it does show up for!?

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I'm brand new to Macs but loving my new iMac and Airport Extreme with one problem... I keep all my music on an External drive and I can't see anything on the drive. It is plugged into an Airport Extreme through a USB hub. I plugged it into the Airport directly and got same result. Printers plugged into the hub work fine.
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