Using a hard drive on airport extreme

I fixed my quandry with gaining wifi access to my airport extreme while using my laptop. But now I have a new question. Now that I have access for laptop (connected via wifi), and access for my desktop (connected via ethernet). How do I get my laptop to recognize the hard drive I have connected to the airport extreme? My desktop recognizes it, I went into the file sharing option and enabled file sharing and i want to be able to "read & write" from my laptop so I made that option available also. I also "checked" the "share disks over WAN".
What else am I mising and or what else do I need to do to have the hard drive accessable through my laptop? (Which by the way is an old sony vgn-fs550, running windows xp)

Working from memory here, 3+ years since I've used a PC. You will need the device name for the AirPort Extreme, device password and IP address of the AirPort Extreme on your network. For example, in the illustration below the IP address of the AirPort Extreme is 10.0.1.1 and the name of the AirPort Extreme is AirPort Extreme
My Computer
Tools
Map Network Drive
DriveZ:
Folder
\\10.0.1.1\AirPort Extreme
Finish
User Name = Your name or virtually anything should work
Password is the device password for your AirPort Extreme
This will get you close. One of the PC guys may need to tweak this.

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My airport extreme is connected to ADSL-router and is providing another WLAN in my house. The internet connection works fine, but I couldn't print nor use my hard drives. I installed the printer using the bonjour guided printer installation tool.
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Hi.
Thank you for your reply. No help though.
Printer gives me this warning:
The network cable is not connected, or the printer is not turned on. Check these items.
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So, it tends to be borderline as far as its ability to supply sufficient power to a hard drive...even if the hard drive has its own power supply.
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OK, I feel silly on this one.
After looking for issues with the airport and not finding any and needing a file from my backup drive, I had to connect it up to my PC. That's when I found my solution.
The Drive I had connected had stopped responding. That's why the Airport was not showing it and not allowing connections. I had power cycled the drive a few times while testing, just not long enough. I unplugged the drive for 2 minutes, all cables, then reconnected. After about 5 minutes, the Airport was able to confirm the drive and turned the share back on.
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Hi,
I have just tried to set up an Airport Extreme with an external hard drive at home. I have 4 computers connected to the "network" - an iMac, a MacBookPro and 2 x windows machines. A printer is connected wirelessly to the two Macs.
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Burn important data onto multiple copies of archival DVDs and store same in cool dark fireproof safes, multiple places.
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