Sharing firewire drive over smb

I have an external Lacie FW400 drive I'm using as a media drive. I need to be able to access this drive from other computers (both windows and linux) via smb.
The Lacie is connected to my Powermac, and is mounted on my desktop. I can access my home folder on the powermac via smb from either linux or windows machines, but the Lacie doesn't show up in my /Users/username/Desktop folder over a smb connection. I am unable to figure out how to access files stored on the Lacie.
Anyone done this before and care to share how they did it?
Powermac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Answered my own question. Found Share Points application and prefs pane.
That did the trick!
Powermac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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