Airport wireless clients not seeing airport ethernet clients.

I have a problem with airport wireless clients not being able to see airport ethernet clients on the same base station - bonjour does not work for this, appletalk does not work for this, and Remote Desktop does not work for this either. Is there a way around this? Is this normal or a bug? I can change the last surviving ethernet machine to wireless but I if I can avoid the cost that would be good.
Miklos.

It's ok, I got it working. I just reset the second airport, went through the "easy" set up, reset, went into manual config, changed the network to a WDS (to match the main base station) and changed the setting that allows further distribution of the network, and it's working perfectly now!!
Hooray!!
I have to say, of all my Apple experiences, the base station set up was the least "Apple", it was confusing, complex, and somewhat erratic, but now that I have the config perfect, it seems to be working without a hitch. I just hope they can include network templates in the next software (for other people since I'm good to go now anyway) - that would be more Apple - so that people can just go bang I have this config, and perhaps for the more obscure set ups a fine tune would work off a template to get people set up faster and easier and with less confusion.
Miklos.

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