Sharing A Mac Formatted Drive Through A Windows PC

I have a HFS formatted external drive which I would like to share with my iBook through our home wifi network. Is it possible to mount the drive on my roommate's Windows machine and then share it over the network? How would I do this?
Thanks!
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

You will need to use Sharepoints in order to share the hard drive.
http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/
iFelix

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