AirportExtremeN sharing among wireless and wired Macs how?

I've an AirportExtremeN base station with Airdisk that works fine wirelessly with my MacBookPro (Tiger) and a desktop PC running XP, as well as an eMac (Panther) and a Mini(Tiger) that are wired to the same AirportExtremeN base station via ethernet. All 4 machines print to the USB printer and share a DSL internet connection fine too.
I cannot figure out
(1) how to share the AirDisk with the wired machines, or
(2) how to mount the wired Mac's on the MacBookPro.
I've got the latest software versions and the AirportExtremeN firmware updated.
Advice please

1) On the wired machine(s), use the Go menu in the Finder to connect to your "server." It is the same IP address as your AEBS, so usually 10.0.1.1.
2) not quite sure what you mean, but if I'm guessing correctly, it's the same procedure as file sharing over any network and is not specific to your AEBS or Airdisk. Use the same Go --> Server menu to log onto and mount any wired Mac that has file sharing turned on.
-dan

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