Sharing a LaCie 250MB drive connected to a MacMini via Firewire - Cant?

New poster here. Call me dumb but I have been battling against this for quite some time now. I installed Sharepoints, configured it, yet when I use the other Macs I have (5 of them, all domestic, no business) I do not see the drive nor the folder. What is wrong with me? File sharing is on, machines can be seen and I can access their internal drives. Not the LaCie drive. That drive has one partition of near 250MB.
Thanks for any help

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