Share hard drive-airport-xbox 360

hey hey
...not sure if this belongs in this thread but anyway...
i have an airport extreme running my network. connected to this is an xbox 360, connected to this is an external HDD. this HDD has been connected to my mac to transfer files, vids etc to watch on the xbox's media centre.
anyway for me to access that HDD from my mac??
and having the HDD connected to the mac and watching videos on the xbox from that is out of the question...wireless connection+streaming video=lag
cheers guys

I'm marking this as answered simple because there doesn't seem to be a solution. I finally gave up, upgraded my airport extreme to 7.4.2 and backup over a USB hard drive now.

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Continuing my investigation I started to come to the conclusion you just mentioned. I am surprised none of the staff at my store realized this. However, at least I know now.
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