Trouble with airport extreme

I have a My Book Essential hooked up to an apple airport extreme router via a USB cable.  My windows 7 computer will not locate the hardrive on the network, even though the computer is connected directly  to the router with an Ethernet cable.  Any ideas?

I AM HAVING THE SAME ISSUE SOMEONE AT wd SHOULD RESPOND!

Since there’s been no replies, maybe you should try contacting WD’s Technical Support about this. You can do so either by phone or email.

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