Cannot access external hard drive on Airport Extreme (802.11n) network.

It took me many hours to even get my Lacie 320GB hard drive on the network. I went back and forth between plugging it directly into the usb port on my PowerBook and plugging it directly into the extreme or the usb hug plugged into the extreme. It would consistently tell me that I was denied access, or I was using the wrong password when I know I was not. Eventually I found a forum that suggested creating a "shared" folder on the drive. Eventually I think I had to do a get info and give myself and others permissions to EVERYTHING on the drive and the subfolders. Then I finally got access. But then the "connection was interrupted" and I lost access completely again. I am wondering if this is a "mounting" issue. I may not be clear on what I am supposed to do to mount the exernal. I have upgraded to Leopard and have not been able to access the drive through the extreme since.

What is the drive formatted in? I had problems with mine when it was formatted in FAT32.
Tom

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