MacBook and iMac via AirPort Extreme?

Hello.
If I get a new MacBook, can I connect directly with my APE-ed iMac and a USB hard drive ected to it? Or do I need to go via an AirPort Extreme Base Station?
Would an AirPort Express work as the base station?
Thanks.

Yes you can share a drive across a network if the drive is connected via USB to a Mac. This works in Ethernet or any other networking connection.
...since apparently an HD can't work with the AirPort Express (the iTunes one)). (I wish they'd called them completely different things.)
They are called different things. The AX support music streaming. The AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) does not.
I meant, an AirPort Extreme Base Station. The one coming out today.
It came out earlier this month, but the same is true. The AEBS IS a base station.

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