Airport shared disk showing up as FAT32 in Windows

Greetings, I have exhausted my Google Fu and have not been able to see anyone with the same issue as I have so here I am. Apologies if this has been answered already
I have an external HDD plugged into my AEBS for sharing. The drive is formated to HFS+. However when my Windows machines connect to it over the network they see the drive as FAT32 which poses some problems with file size limitation. It doesn't seem to matter if the AirDisk utility is installed on the machine or not.
Anyone else ever have that problem and if so anyone know how to get it to see the drive as NTFS? Thanks in advance

Niel wrote:
which poses some problems with file size limitation
The 4GB limit doesn't apply to drives connected through the AirPort Extreme base station that they show up as FAT32 when they're actually Mac OS Extended.
(56739)
Internally it does not you are correct, I have files on it that are larger than the limit but as Windows only sees it as a FAT32 drive (mounted network drive) it does not allow for files that are larger (I know for sure as I tried to transfer a 5 gig file to it)

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