setting up shared hard drives?

[CMMeast]

My roommates want to set up a harddrive connected to our LAN so we can share movies and music over the wireless. Basically we just want to dump all our music on the harddrive so we can all access each others stuff whenever we want.

The HD is a ComData 300GB.
The router is a run-of the mill Linksys 802.11a/b/g, WRT54GS.

Unfortunately, I have no idea of where to start. I googled a couple different questions but all I get is information on setting up a LAN. Please help.

Thanks in advance.

[Alleya]

My computer > Right click the hard drive > Properties > Sharing tab > Enable sharing (share this folder on the network) > Give it a name and hit OK.

Now on your computer and/or your room mate's you can either access the drive through My Network Places (if all goes well a folder will show up with the name you gave in the sharing property) or map the drive (google that).

[Zigma]

mapping is a just about the same as sharing but a lot better. Share the drive and then map it (Right click on my computer and go to map drive) Assign it a letter and map it. Go to the second PC and right click on my computer again and go to map drive, look for the drive on your computer and assign it a letter and thats it.

[Blabj]

Give it a letter that's not: A, C, D, E, F.

I choose M for 'Media'.