Connecting External Hard Drive

I have recently purchased a Western Digital MyBook external USB hard drive and cannot get it to mount through the airport extreme base station to my desktop. On my laptop it recognizes the HD immediately through wireless when I turn the computer on. On my desktop which is connected to the base station directly though a DSL cord the disk does not mount at all, or come up as a recognized device. I am running OSX 10.4.11 if that helps at all.
thanks
garrett

My problem is similar, but different.
I bought a MyBook USB drive. Connected it directly to my iMac, and reformatted the disk to HFS+. Then connected it to my AEBS (8.11N).
1) iMac (wired to AEBS) _sees it fine_ in Finder and TimeMachine,
but Airport Utility _does not see it_.
2) macbook (also wired connection to same AEBS) _does not see it_ in finder.
Mark.
3) other macbook (wireless connection) _does not see it_ in finder.

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