One of my Macs doesn't see USB drive hooked to Airport Extreme

I have three Macs on my home network. Two of them can see the USB drive I've attached to my Airport Extreme, but the third -- a recent Intel Mac Mini -- won't. Airport Utility on the Mac Mini sees the drive, but Airport Disk Utility doesn't. Here's what I've tried:
~ Restarting the Airport Extreme
~ Retarting the Mac Mini
~ Reinstalling the Airport Extreme software on the Mini.
Any ideas?

have you gone to the network button in the finder and searched for it after pushing the network button?

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