Time Capsule wont recognize my external hard drive connected to my router.

I purchasd a Netgear N600 Ruter and connected a WD MyBook for Mac Hard Drive to it with the hopes of setting up a wireless Time Machine Backup system for my MacBook and iMac. Unfortunately Neither computer will recognize the MyBook Hard Drive as a Hard Drive for Time Machine. I can get to the files through the finder window just fine, but Time Machine won't recognize it as haveing space to back things up in. In disk Utility it stays that my external Hard drive is formatted to "Macintosh Formatting".
Also in Time Machine>Select Back Up Disk>Other Time Capsule>Set Up it opens the Airport Utility. In Airport Utility If I go to File Menu and go to Configure Other it Requests a address and password. For the address I chose the files that the Hard drive is listed to which is smb://192.168.1.1...(etc) It says "An error Occured while reading the configuration." Do I need to reformat my external hard drive? I was on support for about 2 hours with the Router support and they finally said to contact apple Support. Any Ideas would be great. Please Help!

Netgear made WNDR3700 and WNDR3800 as well as a specific Mac version.. all called N600 as well as some modem models also called N600.. So tell us a precise and exact model number.
I think the Netgear are supposed to handle AFP file protocol, but we need the exact model to check... also if it can handle AFP since Lion.. because a lot of things changed and units that could do TM backups no longer worked. AFP in Lion increased security beyond what the firmware of the router could handle.
You also need to understand, you cannot see a TM backup that was done on an external drive if it is plugged into a network device.. TM handles network drives differently to local drives.
But there is no reason to do what you are doing.. In fact it is much better to leave the disk plugged into the iMac.
You can still access it from wireless with your laptop, by simply sharing the disk to the network from the iMac.
See http://code.stephenmorley.org/articles/time-machine-on-a-network-drive/

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