Can't see files on a NAS drive

After upgrading to Leopard on my 2 iMacs, I cannot see any files on my NAS drive. I can see folders but when I click on them, no files shows up. But files do show up when Im using a PC.
Does anyone else have this problem or know how to fix this?

I had the drive on a user password, but changed it to just be accessible if you were connected to the router. With this setting I can see the files on my movie drive, but when I try to do I time machine backup, it just sits on the "making backup disk available" and never is able to start the backup. Is there some trick to allowing the disk to backup from the airport?

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So on the OS X side of things I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion. Now I can still backup to the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition with Time Machine but I can't see any backups or any files at all that I put on the backup drive while i'm in OS X Lion. I know they are there because When I'm in Windows 7 I can still see all Time Machine backups and all files on both partitions of the backup drive.
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Yesterday evening I tried to share the drive over my network by clicking System Preferences / Sharing / File Sharing and then adding the drive as a shared folder. It is since doing this that I cannot see my files on this external HD. I have a second NTFS HD here which I connected and I can see the files on that drive so I don't think it's a software issue.
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iMac 24" Early 2008 Model
Core 2 Duo - 3.06Ghz
4GB RAM
OSX 10.7.2
iomega 1TB External Hard Drive
Formatted NTFS
Paragon NTFS for Mac OSX v8.0.0

I had the same problem but only after I upgraded to Lion. I could see the files on my external drive on other Macs using older software. It seems that Lion wasn't seeing old files on the external drive. So we accessed the files on a Mac using Snow Leopard, copied all the files into one new folder on the same external hard drive and now they're there on Lion. Problem solved! I hope this helps

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Is it possible that i did this whilst updating the OS software whilst leaving the WD drive connected.
It's a good idea to eject and disconnect external HDs, just in case, but that shouldn't cause a problem.
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