Accessing External Hard Drive on PC

I have my airport extreme connected to my PC via ethernet and connected wirelessly to my Mac Book. I cannot connect to the external hard drive through my PC. Whenever I enter my base station password I keep getting an error message that the user is not authorized. I can acces thehard drive on the Mac Book. Any suggestions?
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.9)

sorry for asking a stupid question but I was having identical problems under Windows XP. I followed your suggestions and mounted as network drives etc.. But I can't see the contents
of the drives.. Is there something I'm missing..?
thanks..

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