Sharing a mounted drive

Hello, I was wondering if there was anyway to share a mounted drive. I encrypted one of my drives using truecrypt, and I was wondering if there was way to share that drive with AFP and SMB. I tried creating a link to the drive and placing it in / and making that a share point but it just "bugged" out and didn't let me. Any ideas on how to do this?
Cheers.

Use the Server Admin application to specify the drive as a share point. For what it is worth, I have been told in the past that sharing the root level of a volume is a security risk. I do not recall why, I just recall reading that at some point. I always share a directory at the top level instead of the volume itself.

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