Unable to access Airport Extreme Disk With Vista

I have a network with a Mac Book Pro, G5, and now a Vista PC all connected to an Airport Extreme. Connected to the AE are a printer and two harddrives. The harddrives are formatted HFS+ Journaled. All three computers have access to the Internet and to the printer. The Vista computer is unable to access the harddrives (most of the time). Prior to the Vista machine I had an XP Pro machine that was able to access the AE without any problems at all. The Vista machine will occasionally be able to access the drives but only for approximately 60 seconds. Access, when it does occur, is typically after a reboot of the AE. Following a reboot, I can map the AE drives to drive letters or simply access them from networking for from IE.
I've tried turning off the Windows firewall as well as the McAfee one and still no solution.
I've tried everything I can think of as well as scanned message boards to no avail. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

am having similar problems with USB drive connected to airport extreme. I tried with a usb key and it can only be seen by the airport base station agent and computers on the network if it is formatted using FAT32 file system. if I use any other file system to format the usb key, it cannot be seen. I have some external hard drives that windows will not allow me to to format using fat32. they are NTFS formatted and are not usable.
You might try formatting your drives in FAT32 if you can, after backing up all the files you have on the drive. then see if it works.

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