Can't see shard hard drive on my mac, but can on both my pcs.

I just bought and hooked up my airport extreme. After having my room mate switch out his old networking devices and getting frustrated with trying to set it all up, I finished the job. I have the printer hooked up and can print from the 3 computers in the house. We wanted to hook up a shared hard drive so we can share work related materials. We plugged in the hard drive and both his pc and laptop can see and use it, but I can't find it anywhere.
What am I doing wrong? How can I get it to where I can put my files on the hard drive also?

any help?

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