Can't connect to Express

I just set up a new Aiport Extreme base station. I had an old Extreme that was about five years old and had it wirelessly connected to an Aiport Express that I have connected to my stereo. I got this new Express from my son-in-law and did a factory reset on it and got it going. I have my network up and running just fine. Two laptops, iphones, an iPad and my desktop - all connected. Trouble is I can't get this new Extreme or the network, whatever the case may be, to connect to Airport Express. All l I get is a greyed out image of the Express with a yellow triangle beside it saying that my Airport Express was previously part of my network and Device is not found. It's plugged in and sitting about three feet from my computer so the 'check that it is in range' doesn not apply. The Express worked perfectly with my old base station, but this new one won't recognize it. I tried to connect it with an ethernet cable and that worked, but I can't get it to find it wirelessly like I did with my old base station. I tried doing a factory reset on it but that didn't work either. I'm stuck! Any help would be appreciated.

I found the problem. Although the Catalina Express had the Guest Network enabled it was getting its signal from another Express that for some reason did not have the Guest Network enabled. So I enabled that and everything seems fine now.

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I can't connect Airport Express wirelessly to network so that AirTunes and internet are available simultaneously. My old AE allowed this but can't make the new one work that way.

In your instructions, you say to use the same encryption type as the router has set up. well, I am using the WEP 64 bit encryption and the Airport Utility does not have this...it has 40 bit. Is this a problem, or do I have to be using a the same type of encrytion ?
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I suggest you perform a simple site survey, using utilities like the following to determine potential areas of interference, and then, try to either eliminate or significantly reduce them where possible:
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Suddenly can't connect to express, unless I plug ethernet into it.

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vm
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Hi Videoman413
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Then using Airport Setup Assistant join your existing network as a client, and hopefully the rest will fall into place for you!
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I don't quite understand the mention of hostname related to sqlplus, do you have several Oracle installations? On a machine with Oracle XE you can normally select "Run Sql Command Line" and you are prompted like this:
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Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved.
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Girlfriend's computer can't connect to Express network with password-help!

Hi, first post here so please be gentle with me!
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