Sharing Hard Drive - HT add a New One?

I have HDD sharing running fine. I can access my HDD's (attached to the desktop) from my laptop macs. I just added a new HDD and want to add it the list so it shows up as a shared HDD but cannot remember how. I looked through NETWORK and SHARING but don't see anything obvious. Again, my other HDD's show up fine - just can't remember how to add one more. Thanks!

And they are all runner Tiger OS 10.4.11 which is what this forum covers?

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http://www.applelinks.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/142/
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