Problems sharing External HD over Airport Extreme network

I just purchased a 1.5 TB Western Digital MyBook Essential. I tried plugging it into my Airport Extreme so I could access it wirelessly across the network but I can't seem to get it to work. I have followed all instructions I could find and still no luck.
I tried plugging it directly into my Win7 PC and it came up just fine and I was able to put an HD movie on it. Then I tried plugging it into my Mac and it came right up and I could play the movie without any problems (although I did notice I couldn't transfer any files off my mac onto the HD).
I then plugged it back into the Airport Extreme and went to disks and it showed right up with 1.4TB free. I then adjusted all the File Sharing Options as follows:
X - Enable File Sharing
Secure Shared Disks: With Airport Extreme Password
X - Remember my password in keychain
AirPort Disks Guest Access: Read and Write
X - Share disk over WAN
Workgroup: WORKGROUP
WINS Server: WORKGROUP
For some reason I still can't see it in finder to access the files on the MyBook Essential. I can't pull it up on my Win7 PC either.
Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thanks

Okay then, so there is no real way to have an external drive shared over the airport in such a way that both my mac and my pc can access it and read/write to it?
On the contrary. With an external drive, formatted with HFS+, the AirPort can share it to either AFP (Mac) or SMB (PC/Linux) clients.
I looked at FAT32 but it says there is a 4GB max file size, and I am mostly planning on using this drive to backup my Bluray collection which are fairly large files (7GB or more)
I would recommend HFS+ instead which has a max. volume size of 8 EiB. You can easily format the drive by (temporarily) attaching it to your Mac, and then, use Disk Utility to partition/format it as desired.

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