Another EX. HD Question

[Skitterbug]

Yep, me again with another question! Now I have added a second external HD that has a Fat32 partition to my iMac. My goal is for this EX. HD to stay connected to my iMac but I want to be able to see it and share it with my PC. Both computers are located on my personal home network <router - cables, etc.>. What I've done so far is as follows: On my iMac <OS X 10.4.10>, I have turned on Personal File Sharing and turned on Windows Sharing. Also I have created a user account to match the user account on the PC.<even though Winuser was there already>. My iMac can see the folders I have shared on my PC.My PC <XP SP2> can see the folders and files on my iMac.My PC cannot see the EX. USB HD attached to my iMac. <yep FAT 32>I tried putting an alias of my EX. HD in my Public Folder but when I click on that from the PC, it doesn’t work. The message my PC displays says: HD alias is an unknown File type.I don't see anything else I can do to make the EX. HD visible to the PC. Are there any ideas what I should do to make this setup work? Or isn’t it possible for an iMAC to share an EX HD?Thanks again for any and all help!

[Skitterbug]

It is weird to reply to myself but I wanted to let posters know that I solved my own problem with help from the Apple discussion site. I was pointed to SharePoints which allows Macs to share files, folders, and external hard drives, etc. easily. A very nice application! It worked for me. If you are interested, it is located on this site - http://www.hornware.com/Post complete - I'm done - and I'm gone!

[zlim]

Thanks for sharing. I currently don't own an Apple but that will change in 6 months or earlier and I'll be facing this problem with my 80 gig external hard drive. When that time comes, I'll search for this thread.