Remote shared drive access without Back to My Mac

I recently bought an external high-capacity LaCie drive to store all my media content, photos, etc. It is shared over our Airport Extreme wireless network to my MBP.
I would like to be able to access the drive from my MBP when I am away from home -- whether traveling on business, or working out of another location; in either event, working from somewhere that is NOT on my home's local/wireless network. I know the Airport Extreme can allow the drive to be accessed remotely via a MobileMe account (which I have) and a couple Macs properly configured to use the "Back to My Mac" service. However, if I understand that service correctly, it is designed only for situations in which there are two macs, and one needs to access the other. In my scenario, there's only one Mac -- my MBP which would be with me at whatever remote location. The external drive I want to be able to access, would just be sitting on my home office desk connected to the Airport, as always. Is there any way I can connect directly to that drive while I'm out and about somewhere?
Thanks!
Dan

Well I think it's certainly possible - if you check out the Disks/File sharing tab in the Airport Utility you can enable sharing over the internet via Bonjour.
That's the easy part - the difficult part is how to maintain security yet gain access. You'll need to allow access back via you router, so there will be faffing about with NAT, and of course it will depend on whether you have an external static or dynamic IP address - both can be accommodated but with different actions.
I don't know enough about your network to comment further.

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