Spotlight not working with External Drive (Wireless)

I have setup the new Airport Extreme (AE) and connected WD 500GB via USB to the (AE). Spotlight does not recognize the external drive when it is connected to the AE. It will of course work if I directly attach external drive to my Macbook Pro. Any ideas on how to get Spotlight to "see" and index this external drive. Thanks.

I was able to get my Airport disk working using the following Terminal command:
sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/Maxtor\ HD
Replace Maxtor HD with the name of your HD. (The slash indicates a non-breaking space.)
It took awhile and then it started indexing.
J

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