Trying to share a usb hard drive, what am I doing wrong?

Okay, finally got myself the new airport extreme. Plugged in all the cables, installed the software supplied on cd, ran the software update and installed the necessary updates.
Then turned on the airport extreme, waited for the status LED to go green and it did.
Configured the airport extreme on my iMac, Leopard 10.5.2 and the internet worked perfectly fine.
So far so good, now,
Connected the Lacie 160 GB portable drive. The drive has two partitions, 1 is Mac OS Format, 1 is Win32. The problem is I cannot see these partitions in Finder or as a shared drive. If I open the Airport Utility, I can find these two partitions and they have been shared. But i still can't access them from Finder.
What am I missing? Any help for me plz ?
Thanks, Pj

That disk should be fine, I have a similar external that has no power, powered only by the USB port. Mine works fine so should yours.
Okay so if you go into Airport Utility and then under manual, click on the Disks, does the disk show up in the list? Under File sharing is the box checked to enable file sharing?
One more question, what is the disk formatted as? Only Fat32 or Mac Os Extended will work.

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