Sharing External HFS Drives

I have a MacBook Pro and a Mac Mini. The Mac Mini have external firewire and external USB drives that are HFS formated attached. I can log into my Mac Mini from my Macbook Pro using file sharing. The problem is I can not connect to the HFS formated external drives. They are not showing up as options to mount. How can I set this up so when I connect to the Mac Mini I can access the external drives?
I could use any help anyone has for this problem.
Thanks

You need to manually configure which directories to share. By default only users home directories and certain public directories are shared.
Unless you're familiar with configuring the sharing daemons, your best bet is to get a copy of SharePoints which puts a nice GUI on the process.

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