Loss of privileges to external disk after using it with Airport Extreme

My wife and I both have MacBook Pros, dual 2 cores running OS 10.5.8. I bought an Airport Extreme to see if we could share songs & pictures wirelessly from the same libraries. I connected an external hard disk to the AEBS and got it set up as a "server". The songs in iTunes worked well, but the photos were a problem because we don't use the same version of iPhoto, also it was slow to process photos wirelessly and the AEBS seemed to randomly kick one or both MBPs off the network, necessitating a restart of all devices. Anyway, I've decided to do away with the AEBS.
Problem is, now when I connect the external hard disk to either computer, I don't have access privileges. How can I fix this without wiping the drive?
Thanks

Well, I guess I should've explored the Get Info window before posting. I was able to rectify access privileges.
Anyone got a handle on the whole AEBS knocking users off network?

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