Using Airdisk to back up multiple systems?

Is it possible to hook up a USB drive to my Airport Extreme and use the Airdisk functionality to back up more than one system to it using Time Machine (which I understand now works w/ the AEX)?

Although it works for some (including me), it doesn't for others, and is still not supported by Apple.
Here's the official word: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1733 (Leopard) or http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/15139.html (Snow Leopard).
The more recent SL article is even more emphatic -- says you can't, where the Leopard post just omits it from the list of things it can do.
So, I'd say give it a shot, but it's at your own risk. And a future update may bring it to a screeching halt!
If you do it, use the naming rules in #C9 of the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum.
But unlike some network drives, if it does quit working, your backups aren't lost -- you can restore from them by connecting the disk directly to your Mac (but you have to manually mount the sparse bundle).

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