Connecting macs and pcs together through airport express

i have had my first mac ibook for just over a week and have also bought an airport express thingy. my daughter has a windows pc laptop. is it possible to connect them both through the airport express so we have a wireless connection to each? i am pretty new to the whole apple mac and wireless business and dont understand about settings and putting codewords and numbers into the boxes that might pop up.
anne

Hi Anne,
Welcome to Apple Discussions
By connecting them you mean to have them both receive signal from the Airport Express to access the internet rather then make a connection for file sharing.
If that is the question, Yes you can. The easiest way of doing this is to set it up on the iBook G4 using Airport Setup Assistant. It will walk you, or your daughter through setting up the Airport Express. You want to assign it a password and your basically done except for your Windows PC. Does your Windows PC have a wireless card? Can you access the internet already? What you are going to need to do in order to connect to it is to join the network like you would any wireless network. I am not a Windows user (I try not to use them as much as possible), so I can't really help you with the Windows aspect of it.
You can also setup the Airport Express using your Windows PC, but I think it would be easier on the Mac.
You may want to look at the following...
Knowledge Base Document #166609, which will help you decide What kind of network do I want to setup (Mac)
Knowledge Base Document #163112, which will help you decide What kind of network do I want to setup (Win)
Knowledge Base Document #163103 on Setting up your AirPort Express or AirPort Extreme Base Station (Mac/Win)
Knowledge Base Document #106424 titled AirPort: Joining an encrypted wireless network
Connecting to the Internet using AirPort
Knowledge Base Document #108058 on Choosing a password for networks that use Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
Jon
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