Sharing external drive over network - problem

Hey guys,
I searched the forum, but nothing posted to other threads helped.
I want to share a LaCie external USB drive over my network. It consists of two macs: a mac mini and a macbook running OSX 10.4.9.
The external drive is formated in FAT32. I enabled sharing in the system pref. but I don't see it when trying to connect. I installed SharePoints and shared it from there, still nothing. I tried connecting using the "afp://..:" stuff, but I get an error message, saying I cannot connect.
Got some ideas?

Thanks for your reply
Did you use the little "Show File System Attributes" yet?
Yep, it's r&w
Did you use the enable Windows(smb)Sharing to Shared?
Yes
Did you add Users yet?
Yes, my username which i use to connect is added.

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