How the heck do I get my "My Book" USB hard drive discovered on my network?

Most everything on the Mac has been EASY but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get my usb drive to be seen my my imac let alone any other device on my network.  I really need to do a backup via Time Machine but the imac doesn't see the hard drive. 
What am I doing wrong?  I have it connected to the only USB port on the Airport Extreme.  Windows PC doesn't see it either and the drive IS powered on. 
HELP

See this migrate iTunes library post.
tt2

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