* airtunes with a computer to computer network

I have a iMac with an Airport Extreme card. The iMac has an internet connection thru a cable modem directly connected. There is no base station involved.
I purchased an Airport Express to connect to powered speakers - wanting to use the airtunes feature. I had to create a new network to do this. It works.
The problem is I cannot share the internet from my iMac with the other household computers and play music thru the speakers at the same time. I have to turn "internet sharing" off to connect to the Airport Express network.
I am hoping it is technically possbible to share the internet from my iMac, and play music thr the airport express at the same time - but don't see how to do it. Can anyone help me?? Thanks in advance!!

Thanks!
So let me ask my original question one more time (and
I think this is the correct wording...). Is it
POSSIBLE to connect an AX that is to be used for
airtunes (in another room) to an existing wireless
network (if that network is "computer to computer"
shared internet access)??
If this is a computer to computer network, an ad hoc network between two computers than the answer is no.
If this is a Mac sharing its internet connection via Airport (acting as a software base station) then the answer is probably yes, but you may not be able to use encryption.
iFelix

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mrhatken at mac dot com email

Hi BDAqua,
Thanks for your post. Unfortunately, I don't believe I explained things clearly. I am trying to do IP routing from one machine to the other without using the NAT that Internet Sharing would give me.
I can get it to work fine when I have a computer-to-computer network without WEP security, e.g. I can ping each machine from the other. However, if I recreate the c-to-c wireless network with WEP it doesn't work.
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A has a static route 192.168.49 -interface en1
A has IP forwarding on
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Internet:
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default 192.168.1.1 UGSc 17 16 en0
127 127.0.0.1 UCS 0 0 lo0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 14 16341 lo0
169.254 link#4 UCS 0 0 en0
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192.168.1.2 0:c1:26:10:61:a6 UHLW 1 236 en0 520
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192.168.20 192.168.1.2 UGSc 0 0 en0
vvvvvvvvvv
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192.168.49.4 127.0.0.1 UHS 0 38 lo0
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netstat -nr shows similar (but reversed, i.e. 4 and 7) for en1.
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ping: sendto: Host is down
ping: sendto: Host is down
ping: sendto: Host is down
ping: sendto: Host is down
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ping: sendto: Host is down
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