Trouble sharing external drive on network

I have an 8 TB external drive connected to an old G5 on my network. There are 5 MacPros connected to the network -- all OS10.8. I want to be able to drop files onto the external drive for sharing/storage. File Sharing is on, but I cannot write to the disk, even from the G5 it is connected to. The "owner" of the external disk is logged in on the G5. What to do?? Thank you.

I tried that but still can't see the external drive. All I can see are the G5's public folder and shared folder.
Another thing - the owner of the drive is on a standard account (not Admin). Does that make a difference? Thanks.

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