Maxtor NAS drive used on Airport Express at Timemachine Volume

Does anybody know if it is possible to use an airport express with a NAS drive and use it as a volume for timemachine. Currently I have the drive attached to my timecapsule as a NAS drive. I would like to hide away the airport express with the maxtor attached for security reasons.

Thanks for the post. I was trying to connect a ethernet drive (Maxtor 1TB NAS mass storage drive) that I have now got working wirelessly. This drive is formatted with a linux file system that you are unable to reformat so it is not possible to use as a timemachine volume, however it is great for saving back ups of movies etc and using over the net as I have now set it to do.

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