Setting up my book essential with apple AirPort Extreme

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I purchased “my book essiential” i had it reformatted at the apple store to be used by my apple products. Now I have it connected to my “airport extreme base” and I need to establish acceI toto my  book essential using my iPad and my iPhone. At the moment my computer needs repair so I can’t  do much. 

On my idevices, I have Airport Utility app.

i went to edit-advanced-file sharing and Disks. 

File sharing -ON.

what else I need to do?

thanks 

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Don’t know a lot about Mac products, but try searching an application called FileBrowser from the apple store and check if you can explore your home network.