Airport Disk - Remote Access

Hi! I just got the new Airport Extreme and I hooked up a USB disk. I can use the disk from the finder by mounting it...etc and it works great!
Now I would like to connect to this disk from anywhere (i have a static IP), so is it possible to connect to the disk over WAN via FTP or something? I know my way around the port forwarding procedure, I have just set up VNC so I can access my macbook from anywhere...
But this disk is connected directly to the airport, so which ports to forward and which protocol to use...? In the airport utility there is an option to enable disk sharing over WAN... but how does one connect to this disk?
Thanks in advance!

Don't I have to specify a port to connect via public IP??
You shouldn't have to if you use the Go->Connect to Server... item in the Finder.
Port 548 is the port used.
I can't connect to it even with the local ip (192.168.2.1).
When you are on the LAN side of the AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) you should see the disk appear in the Finder's sidebar.

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