USB drive on airport network?

I have installed a usb 50 gig drive to my airport base station. The airport utility "sees" it. I have all the settings correct (as far as I can tell- sharing etc.)
However my iMac connected via the LAN to the base station will not see it and neither will my laptop on the network. Neither does the airport disk utility. Sounds as if I am leaving out some simple but critical step in the process? Any advice is, as always, much appreciated.

I had the same issue in that most USB drives seem to be preformatted NTFS and once I connected directly to my MacBook Air and ran the WD drive utility and reformatted to MAC file system it worked. My AEBS recognizes the drive now in the Airport Utility and I can even map a network drive from my Windows PC.
But, I have tried all suggestions and I simply still cannot get the MacBook air to map a drive/mount the volume. I keep getting this error saying the thing is already connected to your system try and use it locally or some such thing.
It's really pathetic that I can access the Mac formatted drive on a Apple router with my Windows PC but can't get it to work on my MacBook Air.
Any other ideas out there or wait for update? I have ran all the latest updates available 10.5.2 on Leopard and 7.2.1 on the base station. Again, the base station seems fine and I can access it with Windows so the problem must lie with the MacBook itself. I am connecting the MacBook over wireless and the Windows PC over hardwire - don't know if that makes a difference.

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The correct answer is yes. First off, Apple does NOT support Time Machine backups to external USB HDDs attached to the AirPort Extreme ... although they do for the Time Capsule.
Please check out this excellent Pondini article which provides some details on why this would not be a good idea.

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mfirst wrote:
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PING11 wrote:
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