WinXP can't see h/d attached to Airport Extreme

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Hi Everyone,

I'm having trouble accessing the h/d attached to my Airport Extreme from my WinXP laptop. I can see it from my Mac so I guess there's a configuration step I missed that would make it visible to the laptop. I see the fields on the Airport Utility - File Sharing tab related to windows file sharing, but I'm at a loss for what to enter. Do I make up a Workgroup name? What do I enter for the WINS server? Is there anything I need to install on my WinXP laptop?

My laptop is not configured to be part of a workgroup, it's my corporate computer and is part of a domain.

Thanks in advance.

David
 
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make sure the hd is not HFS+ formatted, windows stock cant read this
 
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The h/d has two partitions, one HFS+ and one FAT. I was under the impression that the drive could be only HFS+ and still be viewable to a WinXP machine. Some implementation of Samba on the AP Extreme I guess.
 

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