Accessing Airport Disk from Windows XP

I have a new Airport Extreme with an attached USB disk. I am able to access the disk from my MAC, but when trying to access it from my windows computer I get Unknown user, incorrect password or login is disabled (error 1203). I have tried configuring the disk access with base station password, disk password and user accounts. Have also tried guest login.
I have 2 XP machines. On one I see the airport disk, on the other I don't. On neither can I access the files. The one that totally does not work has no firewall installed. T
The application I am using is Airport base station agent on the PC. The airport utility on both PC works fine. Running 7.2.1 firmware on the base station
Help apprecited.

An update (and maybe some help to someone with a similar problem). I still can't get the airport base station agent to work, but I have succeeded in mounting the disk manually. Had some problem with the syntax, but it is \\172.16.1.1\diskname where 172.16.1.1 is the address of the airport base station and the discname is what it says it is. Don't try to add the name of the base unit into the path. I set it up with disc password (don't know if his makes a difference). And obviously if you have the airport in bridged mode, this will not help, since the unit will not have an IP address

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Are you running homegroup on the PC..??
That should definitely be turned off!!
Homegroup can mess things up.
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There was issues when the Gen4 came out with security. Windows uses too high an encryption level..
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i am sure this question has been done several times, but i am italian and don't know the correct translation of the message i receive when i try to connect to my airport and so i cannot find the post concerning.
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