Sharing Hard drives across network

I recently set up my new house's network and set up one macbook to share my 2 external hard drives across the network I have also set it up to share a partition of the internal hard drive. When I look at the shared folders from my other macbook all i can see is the internal partition and my public folder i cannot see either of the external hard drives.
1 is a USB hard drive and the other is a Firewire hard drive
Any help Much appreciated
Thank you
Robert Kropohller

Assuming the external hard drive is connected to your computer, you need to open the Sharing preferences and turn on File Sharing and Windows File Sharing. When you do you should have an IP address reported that should be used to access the drive.
The PC will have to then mount the shared drive on the PC, and to do that the drive must be readable on a PC, i.e., formatted MS-DOS. If it's formatted HFS+ for the Mac the the PC will not be able to access the drive without software for that purpose such as MacDrive by Mediafour.
The following may be helpful:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106461
http://www.apple.com/support/tiger/network/
http://joelshoemaker.com/computer/mac/macfilesharing.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1161.html

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