Troubles connecting on to server

Hey
I convinced my family into buying an airport extreme recently so we can watch the movies we download wirelessly but recently i can't connect to the airport from my mac book. on finder when i try to connect i get this message. what do i do for troubleshooting?
There was an error connecting to the server "My server". Check the server name or IP address, then try again.
If you are unable to resolve the problem contact your system administrator.

We download movies off the internet on to external hard drives then play them off the airport... it's more of a storage and convenience thing really plus it has the wireless internet thats why we have it like this

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We install SharePoint 2013 on Azure and were using it from clients via vpn connection to our Azure virtual Net.
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