Backing Up Shared Drive with Time Machine

I have an Airport Extreme with a shared hard drive connected to its USB port. I have TM running on an iBook connected wirelessly and would like to include the shared drive in the TM backup of the iBook. The shared drive is mounted on the iBook when I start TM so everything appears ok. I use a Firewire hard drive connected directly to the iBook as the TM backup drive.
However, as a test of the backup , when I start the TM application on the iBook and try to access the network drive in the Finder window, the Airport Extreme appears under Shared devices but it not clickable. I therefore assume the shared drive is not being backed up.
What's up here?

Barney-15E wrote:
I'm pretty sure TM only backs up direct connected drives.
That is correct.

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