Ghost Drives on my Airport Extreme Base Station.

I have connected 4 external hard drives to my Airport Extreme Base Station via a powered USB Hub. The drives are recognized under he Airport in my sidebar, and I can double click on them and they mount to my desktop. The problem is that none of my data shows up. They appear to be blank. However, when I disconnect the hub from the airport, and plug it directly into an open USB port on my laptop, all the drives come up and mount automatically, and all data is accounted for. Now I'm not a wirless network guru by any stretch, but I assumed it was sharing preferences. I went through and enabled to share connected drives via accounts and entered all required criteria and updated the settings to my Airport. Still to no avail. Also, just for kicks, I opted to Connect to Server from the Go menu in Finder, and attained the network address by mounting the drives individually and gettting info on them, copying the address and entering them into the Server Address, clicking to add them as favorite Servers. Still same result. They mount as an Airdisk, but no content is shown. I know it's an easy fix, but I just do not know what I'm missing???? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
P.S.- MAC for President 2012!

What troubleshooting steps have you already performed?
For example, If you do not connect the powered USB hub to the AirPort and connect only a single drive to the USB port on the AirPort, what happens?
If the drive works, then add the powered hub back in to the setup and connect the drive again. What happens?
If the drive works, add another drive. What happens?
If the drive does not work when you plug in into the powered hub...but it does work when you plug it in to the USB port on the AirPort directly, then you likely have a bad hub. They do fail. Some cheap USB calbles will work, others won't.
If you plug the hard drive directly into the USB port on the AirPort and you still cannot "see" the drive, that suggests a problem with the USB port electronics. Have the AirPort checked out at the Apple store or a servicer.

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If you choose to use accounts, click Configure Accounts, click the Add "+" button, and then enter a name and password for each user that will access the disk.)
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I found this when searching Apple's web site but it is old, October 2007, and said it could not be done. Has this changed since then?
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* Last Modified on: October 26, 2007
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- I wouldn't mind just relying on the usb hub method if I could just insure more consistency (i.e., no random dropouts of peripherals). How could I do this?
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13 ASCII characters = 104 (aka 128)-bit WEP
encryption
If turning off WEP works, then you just need to
provide the cameras with the "Equivalent Network Password".
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standard relies on a 10 character HEX key for 40bit
WEP and a 26 character HEX key for 128bit WEP.
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algorithms to convert simple alphanumeric passwords
(or passphrases) into HEX keys, thus enabling the use
of simple easy to remember WEP password rather than
lengthy HEX keys. The problem is that different
vendors use different algorithms to generate the HEX
key and therefore a ASCII password on an AEBS will be
hashed differently on a non-Apple client and vice
versa.
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- Apple article, especially the part about
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I think your suggestions are almost on the mark... is there any way of reconciling the WEP coding between the cameras and the Airport??? Or turning off the encryption option and STILL have Airport work?
Thanks again for your help and suggestions... I really appreciate it.
geoff

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