External Drive and Airport Extreme ?'s

I am using my airport extreme as a bridge for wireless printing (I currently have the AT&T U-Verse Residential Gateway as my router) and trying to use an external drive for both my imac and macbook for backup. I know I have accessed it a few times this way but now I get a message that says "can't find original item" or something to that effect. When I open the airport utility, I can see it as a disk, when I open finder, I click on my airport under shared and select my external drive and connect as me with the password. It takes a while to come up with the message cannot find original item. I can hear the external drive power up when I connect. Is there something I'm missing? I can plug it into both the imac and macbook directly and it works fine. I do have file sharing turned on. All suggestions appreciated. Thanks!

I have a new question, and perhaps I am supposed to start a "new question":
Actually, yes, you should if you want it to get the attention it deserves to solicate assistance from other users.
I am setting up this shared hard drive and it has the option under airport utility to "share disks over the internet using Bonjour. I checked this box and it directed me to create a global hose name and password, which I did. So now that that is done, how do I actually access my "global hose" when connected over 3G or not at home? What do I type in safari to get to it?
Interestingly, this option never seemed to ever get fully implemented as it required a combination of services that no one seems to offer. This service uses wide-area Bonjour.
Also, if I want to access with a Windows computer, it asks for WINS Server info. No idea what to put in there.
This option is not required so you can safely ignore it.

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