Time Machine cannot see networked USB drive

I'm trying to set up time machine with my USB drive attatched to an Airport Extreme but the "choose backup disk" box is empty when selecting a backup drive.
I read something that said "Time Machine will not work on any network-attached storage unless it's HFS+ on Leopard being shared via AFP (not SMB)", but I'm new to Macs and don't understand what this means.
I've noticed that browsing the info of the USB disk (which incidently IS mounted on my desktop) it says the server location is at 'smb://airportextreme' etc etc. I'm assuming the 'smb' is where the problem may lie?

Hello FizzyFizz
I had been wondering the same thing, and in my research I found this, rather long discussion:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4402934
It gives a few different things to try, I have not tried any myself but they might help you.
~A

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