Networking 2 minis and a lacie ethernet disk mini

The very small newspaper I work for just recently upgraded their equipment. In the department I am in we received two dual core mac minis, and we are wanting to use a lacie ethernet disk mini as our "server". Basically we just need a place to store shared files so that we can both access them and they won't take up space on either one of our computers. Everything I've read said that it should work as a "dumping ground" of sorts, and we've even heard reports of other small newspapers using the same setup. We also received an Airport Extreme to use as well.
We can get the disk mini to work with either of the computers individually, but we can't get it to work through the router or the Airport so that we can both access it. So far we've tried plugging it directly into the router and using the Airport to send the signal, plugging it directly into the router and plugging our computers into the router as well, plugging it directly into the Airport, and plugging it directly into one of the computers then trying to remotely access it with the other one. We've been able to access the internet and our printer as well as each other's computer with each of these options, but it will not recognize the disk mini.
We've been working on this a lot longer than we should have, and we've run out of options. We are stuck using the old equipment (two really old Power Macs) until we figure out the problem. Any suggestions on what we might be doing wrong?

Hi. I don't have any experience with this LaCie product, but I see from their support pages there's specific software to configure the drive for network access.
http://www.lacie.com/support/drivers/driver.htm?id=10048
Just a guess.
PowerBook G4 (15 FW800); 17 iMac G5; Mac mini 1.42   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

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