External HD connected to Airport - Mac won't see it

Just bought an external HD (Lacie 2big tripple) and connected it to the airport extreme via USB.
The HD won't appear on my Mac (MacBookPro). The disk utility won't find it.
The Airport utility recognizes the HD (giving correct information about size and free space), but that's all.
When I connect the HD directly to the computer (either via FireWire or USB) everything works. The HD apears on the desktop. By the way:When I initialized the disk and copied some stuff from the computer's HD to the external one I used the wired fire wire connection.
Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

So, after several hours of fight I reached the follwing status:
- have this disc now as a folder of the "shared disk" airport base station
- - the disc utility won't recognize it
- the time machine is not able to make new copies altough a partition was configured previously (when wired)
At least I can use the storage for my media files, but my intention is to see and use the disk in the same way as if it would be conected via wire to the computer (as in the previuos post).
So can somebody share his/her expericences with an external HD connected via the Airport Extreme?
I mean
- can you see it in the disk utlitility
- can you see it in the finder as a "normal" drive as it ws connected by wire and not as a folder of a shared disk
- can you make a partition for the time machine purposes?
- can you see it

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