Airport express + news leecher in windows

good day to you
i have new airport express
i use the program newsleecher for downloading things with my vista in parallels.
when i had my old router i used to open port (nat) for all my downloading services
now i don't know what to do
where do i get the ip of the windows computer (it's the same as my mac?) i used to look in the sharing option
and also how do i open a port in the airport express? i looked in the airport utility and i see in the advanced tab - port mapping but there's a lot of services and i don't know how to do it
thanks

Parallels has a few ways of setting up network to your virtual operating system.
In your setup I would use bridged ethernet setup. This make your parallels desktop a standalone computer on your network.
then from within vista you can use the networking control panel to assign your vista pc a static ip address.
then you can go to your airport utility and configure your base station. select your base station then manually configure, click in the internet icon in the toolbar followed by the NAT tab. Then click the 'configure port mappings' button.
click the + sign and then you can add a custom service using whichever tcp/udp port you need and forward that to the ip you setup in vista.

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