ICloud password won't stick on new airport extreme

Folks,
This worked fine until upgrading Mac to Yosemite, which i would imagine has no real bearing on the matter at hand...
After upgrading to Yosemite, the 'back to my mac' password(iCloud id) will not stick - as soon as i update settings on new airport extreme, password is gone and 'can not connect to iCloud' is back... i have a new airport express that remains logged in. I have rebooted, removed and re-added, no luck - any ideas?
thanks!

Thanks Benny!
I don’t have the problem - I’m just perusing the board trying to learn something new from other people’s problems & answers like yours, that were fixed with a call are useful to see.

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Sorry you had so much trouble hooking up a hard drive to the base station. I've done some experimenting with the feature and this is what I've found out.
You can use either the native Mac format, Mac OS Extended, or the Microsoft format known as FAT. Apple calls FAT, MS-DOS File System in Disk Utility.
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You only mention having trouble getting the drive to show up on your Desktop, you didn't describe how you went about discovering the network drive. It isn't just suppose to show up on your desktop when you plug it in to the Extreme base station. It doesn't work like the iDisk or disks connected directly to your computer using USB/Firewire.
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The problem is that my parents have what i believe to be a 2006 intel iMac. I know the utility software for a new airport won't run on their old iMac. That's fine because I can run it on mine.
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Hi there otsegony,
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