Airport Express & Windows Vista

does anyone know if there is a patch to allow the airport express to work with a PC that is running vista?

I have exactly the same problem. I have an eMac desktop running 10.3.9 which connects to my AirPort Express fine. But I've recently bought a Toshiba Satellite A100 laptop and the AirPort Admin Utility (v4.2) doesn't recognise it. Please, please help! Any thoughts would be sooooo appreciated.

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    Here's how to connect to you Airport Express via wireless from Vista I'm just pasting it in as I'm not going to re-type the whole thing, so pardon if it's slightly off-topic in spots. Though I guess it won't help you if you're having problems in iTunes as it's known to not work properly most of the time...I haven't ventured that far as I've read it's somewhat fruitless.
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    But to solve the problem I then used the "Other..." button located next to the "Re-scan" button and input the IP address and password of the Airport Express manually. This did the trick and I could connect to the Express and see the config screen. As this was already configured for our network I didn't really change anything but I don't see any problems with doing so and updating the settings from Vista once you are connected to the config screen.
    (skip the rest of this if all you needed was to connect the Admin utility)
    To install my particular printer (a Konica-Minolta laser) I had to connect it locally to my notebook first, let Vista find the updated drivers online (worked fine!!) and then had to add a new port in the printers properties screens by creating a new standard TCP/IP port and just using the IP of the Express. I then selected that as the printers port instead of the USB one, turned off bi-directional support (REQUIRED!!!!) and printed a test page. All worked great. Note I had to do this whole local hook-up then change ports stuff (and more if I remember correctly) for XP too.
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    Cancel any documents in the printer queue.
    Open Control Panel > Printers and delete your AirPort Express Printer.
    Open Control Panel\Programs > "Uninstall a program" and uninstall AirPort Utility.
    Open Control Panel\Programs > "Uninstall a program" and uninstall Bonjour.
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    Download ZoneAlarm Free Edition:
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    Install AirPort Utility in Vista using your fresh copy of AirPortSetup.exe. Approve any software/firmware upgrades that it finds.
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    When ZoneAlarm pops up, check the "Remember this setting" option and click the "Allow" button to allow AirPort Utility and any related services that it starts to access your local network and the Internet.
    Use AirPort Utility to configure the AirPort Express to join your existing wireless network using WPA/WPA2 Personal AES security.
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    Directly underneath that textbox, the hostname of the AirPort Express should also appear. It should be the name of your AirPort Express plus ".local" (for example, "XXXXX.local"). If it doesn't appear, click on the edit button and add the name.
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    Disconnect the ethernet cable connection between your computer and the AirPort Express.
    Reconnect to your wireless network (if you haven't already).
    Use Airport Utility to rescan for devices to verify that it can connect to the Airport Express over your existing wireless network.
    Install Bonjour using your fresh copy of BonjourSetup.exe.
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    Open Bonjour Printer Wizard
    When ZoneAlarm pops up, check the "Remember this setting" option and click the "Allow" button to allow Bonjour Printer Wizard and any related services that it starts to access your network and the Internet.
    Use Bonjour Printer Wizard to set up your network printer. If you want this to be your default printer, check the box in Bonjour Printer Wizard that offers this option.
    Open Zone Alarm.
    Add your AirPort Express hostname (for example, XXXXX.local) to Zone Alarm's Trusted Zone.
    Double-check your Zone Alarm "Program Control > Programs" settings. The programs of concern should appear as:
    Program---------------------------------------------Access--------Server
    AirPort Base Station Agent.................V.......V.......V.......V
    AirPort Utility.......................................V.......V.......?.......?
    Bonjour Printer Wizard........................V.......V.......?.......?
    Bonjour Service...................................V.......V.......V.......V
    Host Process for Windows Services.......V.......V.......V.......X
    Spooler Subsystem app.......................V.......V.......?.......?
    Open Control Panel > Printers
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    Restart Windows.
    Voila! You can print.
    Celebrate by hooking up a pair of powered speakers or your stereo to the AirPort Express audio jack and streaming your favorite iTunes music wirelessly while printing documents at the same time.
    If printing ever fails in the future for some reason (paper jam, power failure, etc.):
    Fix the immediate problem.
    Use Airport Utility to restart the Airport Express.
    Cancel all print jobs in the queue.
    Print.
    Notes:
    If for some reason Windows Firewall gets turned back on (aaaggghhhh!):
    It'll freeze up your of your AirPort Express printer after the first job in the queue. In this case, you'll have to turn Windows Firewall off, restart the Airport Express, cancel all print jobs in the queue, delete your old AirPort Express printer from Control Panel > Printers, use Bonjour to create a new AirPort Express printer, and do that "Offline/Online" trick again.
    * In retrospect, now that Zone Alarm has revealed the settings necessary to allow AirPort printing (and AirTunes) through a firewall, one should be able to just translate the firewall settings over to Windows Firewall or another firewall. (Of course, this raises the question of why one would still want to use Windows Firewall.)
    :o)
    <Edited by Moderator>

  • AirTunes / Airport Express / Windows XP not working together

    Here's the issue. I have two PCs available to me; a laptop from work that is tightly locked down by our paranoid IT dept, and a family desktop that has the iTunes library within it. I purchased airport express so that I could stream to my stereo. The laptop does not have iTunes on it, the IT dept having cunningly deployed some way of blocking its install. They did not, however, block airport utility.
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    The point is, iTunes / air Tunes, hosted on the same desktop, displays, I suspect, similar behavior. It never finds the "speakers".
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    On the Compaq, APutil and iTunes perform flawlessly 100% of the time. However, on the Lenovo and the Asus, ApUtil doesn´t detect my 2 Airport Express, and iTunes will drop the connection after 30-60 minutes. Then I have to restart iTunes in order that it "sees" my Airports again.
    At first, I thought it was a problem with Vista. Later, as it happened on my Asus XP, I thought it was a hardware/driver compatibility problem. Then I decided to make some experiments.......
    I found that at startup, 2 processes are activated: iTuneshelper and APAgent.
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  • Airport Express and Vista DHCP - HELP ME!

    Hello,
    I have HP Pavilion model of laptop with Broadcomm Wireless chipset and Vista Home Basic on board. I am trying to connect to my Airport Express router but no way to obtain IP address from the router. On my Macbook everything work fine without any problems. Vista cannot connect to Airport, why, any incopatibility, how to fix it? I have read about DHCP Broadcast flag enabled in Vista, but I tried setting it to 0 and nothing. I am using closed network configuration and WPA2. No iTunes installed on Vista so far.
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    Welcome to the discussions forum Gary.
    I can find nothing likely to be the instruction sheet you mentioned, but it shouldn't be necessary. What you probably need to do is download and install Apple's latest version of Airport Utility for Windows:
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