Airport Extreme (2009) USB disk & Xbox 360?

Hi all
Does anybody know if an Xbox 360 should be able to see the a USB Airport Disk over the wireless network?
Setup is as follows; Xbox 360 connecting to Airport extreme over 5GHz 802.11a using genuine MS Xbox wireless adapter. Connects to Live just fine. Open NAT. Streams media from connected Vista shared folders and also Media Centre.
I have connected an external USB drive (Tried as both HFS+ & Fat32 format) to the Airport Extreme. All PC's on the network wired & wireless can access the shared files. Xbox 360 cannot see the external drive over the network no matter what. Have tried connecting via guest network with no security. Drive is seen just fine plugged directly into the Xbox via USB. Am I wasting my time?
Thanks in advance,
Cameron

I'm gonna have to bump as well as I've been looking into this setup (Airport Extreme with USB Attached Hard Drive formatted HFS+ & Xbox 360). I've done many searches on these two products working together and no solution yet. I've read of other (non Apple) routers having a third party software allowing xbox 360 to see usb attached NAS.. Hoping Airport Extreme can provide this solution instead

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1. I do not see the AEBS in "finder" as I do idisk etc.
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I've had the same issue. Always have resolved them by shutting down the disk and disconnecting the USB, also cycle power on your USB hub if your using one. Reconnect the disk and power-up.
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Message was edited by: ksquare77

ksquare77,
Sorry I didn't have an external hard drive plugged up to my Airport Extreme at the time of my first post. But I did go and find it and hooked it up. I also grabbed my Wife's Vista Computer. I was however able to connect to it and read and write to the disk. So I'm trying to figure out what snag were running into on your side.
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o http://www.jakeludington.com/xbox/20060103xbox_live_connectionproblems.html
o http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2006/01/02/xbox-live-connection-problems-heres-a-ti p/
o http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908874

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Hy all!
Sorry for my bad english, but i'm italian.
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What you mean the router is incompatible? Is supposed to work regardless of the brand.Apple uses "n" at the 5ghz frequency (ala "a").Everybody else uses 2.4 ghz.and still you can connect because is b and g frequencies.
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