How to merge wireless and ethernet networks?

I have a TC with one Mac connected through ethernet and the other Mac and iOS devices connecting through wireless. How can I merge the ethernet network and the wireless network so that I can share iTunes libraries between the 2 Macs? Thanks

Thanks for you help.
This would take care of the "normal" file sharing between the 2 Mac. But I'm trying to use the iTune feature called Home Sharing, which allow sharing music etc among familly computers that are on the same network, independantly (as far as I understand) of any file sharing set up in the Mac OS. However my experience so far is that the 2 Mac between which I want to apply this Home Sahring feature have to be on the same network. Indeed even if I only have a TC as my router, the 2 Mac have to be on the same wireless network (main or guest). Since one of my Mac is on the ethernet network and the other on the wireless (main) this does not seam to work. I feel that somehow this Home sharing feature looks for the name of the network and make sure that the 2 computers between which I'm trying to enable sharing use the same network (i.e. same name). However the ethernet network does not have a name....
For now, the solution is to have the ethernet wired Mac to also be connected on the wireless network. I'm just not sure how the OS is handeling the connection to 2 networks (hopefully giving priority to the faster/more reliable ethernet one).

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The Aliant is configured through a browser interface and its IP address ought to be 192.168.2.1. Put those numbers in Safari's URL field and see if its webpage loads. If it does, you might be able to find a setting called "bridge mode".
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Thanks for the reply
PSU shows it as defaultt printer and "idle".
when I go to print a document, everything looks normal as the job is sent to the printer, but when I look at the printer. it shows connecting on port 631 until I get an error message.
can it be the port assignment that is wrong?
My Printer self test sheet shows that "AppleTalk is Ready"
the test sheet is where I founf the IP address after AEBS setup
by seeing the printer, I mean thet when the print dialogue box comes up, the printer is there.
actually, that is probably not quite true.
I "added" the printer, named by its assigned IP address.
In the AEBS setup, I changed the address convention to 192.168.1.XXX from the default.
no particular reason, other than to check the change of the assigned IP addresses for the network nodes.
I am able to ping the printer with no problems.
is the driver setup made in the Printer Setup Utility?
if so, how would I go about changing it and to what shall I change the driver to?
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AppleTalk lookup has started ...
AppleTalk interface.............. en1
Network Number .................. 65422 (0xff8e)
Node ID ......................... 2 (0x2)
Current Zone .................... *
Bridge net ...................... 0 (0x0)
Bridge number ................... 0 (0x0)
DDP statistics:
Packets Transmitted ............. 49
Bytes Transmitted ............... 1741
Best Router Cache used (pkts) ... 0
Packets Received ................ 62
Bytes Received .................. 2179
Packets for unregistered socket . 0
Packets for out of range socket . 0
Length errors ................... 0
Checksum errors ................. 0
Packets dropped (no buffers) .... 0
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AppleTalk Information:
AppleTalk lookup has started ...
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PRAM netnumber .................. 65489 (0xffd1)
PRAM node id .................... 7 (0x7)
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PRAM default zonename ........... *
PRAM netnumber .................. 65422 (0xff8e)
PRAM node id .................... 2 (0x2)
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Greg,
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I recently got a desktop in my room which doesn't have a WiFi interface. I wish to connect its wired interfaced to my mbp's wired interface and give it access to the wireless network my mbp is on. To do this I would need to bridge the wireless and wired interfaces on my mbp. All the results I find online to do this only talk about Internet Connection Sharing ..
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hello,
my current network goes like this..........
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i just bought a sgi fuel that i would like to have a connection to.
so i bought a smc switcher (8505t)....
now the cable modem goes into the switcher.
g5 into the switcher.
airport express into the switcher.
sgi into the switcher.
in the network prefs, i then have to change from airport to ethernet. so i reset the modem (at comcast's direction) and choose ethernet. now the mac and sgi can talk. internet works, but not for the powerbook.
i guess my question is can airport express do both wireless and ethernet at the same time? or do i need something else?
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I have three machines, a g4 iMac and a macbook connected via Airport and a Ubuntu linux box sharing the g4's internet connection via an ethernet cable connection. All works well, all three can see the internet fine. However, I can't see the Ubuntu box from the macbook and vice versa the macbook from the Ubuntu box. How can I combine the two networks into one?
Nick Walton ([email protected])

Nick Walton wrote:
I have three machines, a g4 iMac and a macbook connected via Airport and a Ubuntu linux box sharing the g4's internet connection via an ethernet cable connection. All works well, all three can see the internet fine. However, I can't see the Ubuntu box from the macbook and vice versa the macbook from the Ubuntu box. How can I combine the two networks into one?
(It's not a good idea to put your email address in a public forum - if you wish someone can ask to have it removed)
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Wireless network and ethernet network

Hi everybody,
I have got a Powerbook connected to a wireless router via airport accessing the internet, and a desktop g4 accesing the internet via ethernet cable through the same router-but I cannot connect the two computers between each other ?
can´t ping them via IP address..
although they appear in the network-finder..??
all help highly appreciated!

Mark,
Thanks for the clear and precise answers and your symantics in your posts. You might think "What is he on about?", but I must have had a bad week, most of the posters in the forum have been unable to provide clear and precise answers, or just don't answer the questions. You have, and believe me, it makes it 100x easier to solve your issue and 100x more rewarding.
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It really sounds like the "IP Subnet Mask" for the LAN port on the router is something like 255.255.255.0. You can confirm this by checking the router configuration. If you have trouble doing this (I'm not sure if it's software driven or web-based) I can download the manual and give a step by step guide.
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Again, this is confgurable in the router, if it has been set. The solution is up to you, either change the IP address ranges so that they are all like 192.168.1.x, or change the LAN port IP subnet mask to 255.255.0.0.
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From what you say the modem has several ethernet outputs - is this correct? - then you are directly connect to it by cable; and possibly an Airport Extreme is also connected to it.
Unless you are connected to the Airport either by cable or wireless it doesn't come into your own connection, though other computers may be connected through it.
If all this is as I described the modem must issue the IP numers and the Airport must have 'Connection sharing' in the 'Internet' section (after clicking 'Manual setup) set to 'Off (bridge mode)'. Then it simply passes the IP numbers issued by the modem through to any computers connected through it.
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