Airport see the drive but "connection failed" when trying to connect.

Hello everyone.
I connected a USB drive to my airport extreme. it does show in finder but whenever u try to access it I get the.
I can also see the drive in airport express utility but nothing shows up in Airport Disk Utility!
Any ideas???

Hello all-
I have the same problem. I have a WD 250GB My Book Drive (FAT32 Formatted). When I connect the drive to the AEBS, I get two problems:
1) When I select the option to secure the disk with the Airport Base Station Password, and then enter the password when asked, I get an error "User ID and Password are incorrect." However, if I secure it with a disk password, there is no problem.
2) My drive shows up as a Shared Drive in Finder, and I can read and write to it with no problems. However, it does not show up in the Airport Disk Utility as an Airport Shared Disk. Also, it does not show up in the menu bar either as a shared disk.
Any ideas?
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