Sharing Firewire Drive

Greetings,
I am very new to Macs ( less than a month ). This is my first post on the Apple Discussion boards.
I am running into my first networking issue. I run a Windows 2000 Active Directory Domain at work, and I have 2 Macs which I do not authenticate to W2K.
My goal is to connect to my co-workers Mac and access files on his Lacie firewire drive.
I have set myself up with an account on his MAC ( Pre-Tiger ), and I logon just fine. I see the folders that are assigned to me. I do not see his firewire drive nor do I know about how to share it. I naively thought that it just appeared.
Any help, if connecting to a firewire drive over a TCP/IP network is possible, would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance....
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Greetings MacCasey... no problem, just install Sharepoints on the Mac...
http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/
Then just set it to share the FW drive.
Another option is to Loginin with the Mac's Admin User's Name & Password.

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