WRT350N: External Drive Set-Up

I've been trying like heck to get a 500G Mybook hooked up to the router properly.  I plug the Mybook into the usb port of the router.  I create a share and the whole thing.
From my laptop (XP) I map the drive to a letter and can read and write to the drive just fine.  From my wife's laptop (Vista) I map the drive and I can't write anything at all.  I go back to my (XP) laptop only to find out that I can't neither read or write anymore.  Says I don't have permission to write, but initially I did.
What give's here?

Make sure that the Drive you are Mapping on VISTA computer is named same as in XP ....as later on you are using XP & it is not working .....

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