Setting up and Sharing an External Drive on a network

Ok, I'm either the biggest idiot or OSX is not as easy as OS9.
We are in the process of switching all of our computers to OSX. So we are doing the switch one computer at a time. We started with the an eMac that we use as our server. We did a clean install of OSX 10.3.9 and setup a new clean external HD to use as the sharing point (the eMac itself does not have enough HD space). When we were running OS9 on the eMac and using another hard drive as the sharing point, all I had to do was turn file sharing on and make the HD sharable in the "Get Info" box. Was able to see the HD on the network with no problem.
But now in OSX I do the same thing, but all I can see on the network is the sharable Public folder. I'm very frustrated. Is there something I need to do to the HD in OSX that you didn't have to do in OS9? I need to make this new HD networkable before I go and transfer all the old server files onto it and before I start switching the other computers to OSX. Can anyone help? It seems like an easy thing to do, but for the life of me I'm stumped.
Thanks
Paul

On the server eMac turn Sharing on. Be sure to use a single word name for the computer that is less than 20 characters (no special characters.) You should see a note with the connection address for the server, e.g., afp://192.168.0.3.
On the client machine select Connect to Server from the Finder's Go menu. In the window that appears you can enter the connection address provided on the server machine or you can simply click on the Browse button. In the case of the latter another window will open in which you should see the shared server. Double-click to mount. An authentication dialog will appear. You can log in as guest or into a designated account with a password. The account must exist on the server machine. As a guest login you will have read-only access.
You should find these instructions also by using Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu.

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