HT1178 External HDD no files when attached to TIME CAPSULE

Hi all, I have a question and I don't know if this is an issue or I am missing something, when i try to attached an external HDD with some files on, it does not show the files, but I can access the share from the shared drives on my mac normally and create new files easily.
And note when I deattach the external and attach it on my mac, it show everything, the old files and the new one i added through the network .
I am really confused. I need help in this regards

Thanks dear for your reply, actually I am not that good in permissions, just I knew the Basics which are the user, group, others and SUID, GUID and Sticky Bit. I did chmod 7777 on the folder locally before attaching it to the Time Capsule, but I still have the same issue.
You said it is permission and it makes sense to me. Just I want to know if there is a way to grant permission over network, maybe this is related to NFS.
But here in my Senario, I guess attaching a HDD is called SAN because the fs is normally JHFS+.
FYI, I did something else, I addedd the user that I created inside TC to the shared permission of the folder.. But still not solved.
I really need that setup to be done soon.
Any other suggestoins ?
Again, many thanks

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