Sharing USB 1TB across the network to Windows computers

I cannot seem to share USB drives, or their folders. I can share folders on the internal HDD just fine. I can connect to the computer and see the volumes I am trying to share but when I go to open them I get an error message about not having permissions or that the path maybe wrong. I have an external 1TB drive that I am trying to share, I use to share it through I Windows Vista computer but we upgraded to an iMac. I am not sure if this has any thing to do with it but in the Sharing Preferneces when I select the drive under Shared Folders, the Users "Read & Write" option are grayed out. An ideas on how to set this up properly?

did you go through these trouble shooting steps:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1568?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Additionally make sure you have all the usernames, privileges etc right.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1549?viewlocale=en_US

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