Connection an Iomega Network Hard Drive to an Airport Express Network

I am trying to hook up my hard drive to my network. My network consists of an airport express, which I use as my base station hooked up to my cable modem and another airport express which acts as a wireless relay station. My Iomega Ethernet Network hard drive (300Gb) is hooked up to the Ethernet port of the remote base station.
When I initially installed the drive and ran the Iomega discovery software I found the drive. I then transferred data to the drive and then closed the connection.
I then installed on my computer the apple programs Ilife and Iwork, which should not have an effect I would imagine. However, now when I try to run the discovery program it crashes. I have reinstalled the program and it still crashes. I also don't see the drive on my network. However, if I use the netstat program I can see the drive on my router table, it has an IP address and I can ping it. However, I don't see it when I browse the network.
Is there any way to connect to the drive without using the Iomega discovery program and does anyone know if there is any known conflicts with the discovery software and ilife or iwork.
Thanks
William
Powerbook G4 17"   Mac OS X (10.4.4)   2 Airport Express stations

By the way, I have managed to figure out the problem. It turns out that the discovery software that comes with the Iomega network hard drive does not appear to work. After calling customer service at Iomega, they directed me to look at the routing table in network utility to get the IP address assigned to the network drive. Then using my internet browser to login to the drive by entering the IP address as the URL. This worked and there was a html page on the hard drive that allowed me configure the drive.

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