Can no longer access airport base station

I can surf the net via airport, but wireless printing has stopped working. I can also no longer configure the base station via the admin utility - just get an error message "an error occured whilst reading the configuration".
any suggestions what i can do to fix this?

First thing to try - pull power to the Airport Express and let it reboot, then restart your Mac.
If you still have problems, I'd next ask if you are using third-party firewall software on your Mac (which in a worse case scenario will block both admin and printer access to your Airport Express).

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