Airport Extreme HD access via WAN

When I had my MacBook Pro, i would go to school, and i noticed that i was still able to access my hard drive that was connected to the Airport Extreme. For some reason, with my new setup, i am unable to do this anymore. I know whatever i did the first time couldnt have been to difficult, or i wouldn't have done it.
There was no setup, or passwords or anything... i just went to class, opened my laptop, and in the finder column, there was "Airport Extreme". I clicked it and there was all my movies and files.
If anyone knows the seamless way to do this, it would be wonderful. I'm not to keen on having to enter information everytime i want access to something, hence the reason i bought all Apple products in the first place, because everything just worked.
Any insight would be wonderful. Thanks in advance for your time.
Josh

The only way I know that this would have been that "seamless" would be via Back to My Mac (BtMM). BtMM would have required that you had either a MobileMe or iCloud account. Does this sound familar?

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