Share USB Disks over Ethernet WAN port

What exactly does this option enable? The manual is a little less than clear. If I enable it, how would I access the drive remotely? I have dyndns set up, and the AEBS get's the Internet routable IP.
But what method would I use? HTTP? FTP? What?
I saw one post where it made it sound like this would actually keep dyndns updated with any IP changes, but that seems unlikely with how it is worded and documented.
thanks,
Sean

According to a couple of reviews, sharing over wan is CIFS for Windows and AFP for Mac. I can access the drive remotely using AFP, but not CIFS. I go into "map network drive" and enter the server as follows:
\\domain.dyndns.org\hdname
That works when the machine is on the local network, but if I turn on the VPN, which makes it look like the machine is remote, it fails.
I have the drive shared via wan ethernet enabled, and bonjour turned on.
any ideas?
Thanks,
Sean

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