Connection to wired computers through Airport

I have a wired network in my house with a Linksys firewall/router. I just added an Airport Extreme, in order to be able to also have wireless access for a couple MacBook Pros.
The setup of the Airport Extreme and connection to the MBPs appeared to go without issues. However, when I'm connected wirelessly and I go to Finder, I can't see my wired Mac Pro listed under the network choices. I can connect to the Internet, see networked printers, etc., all without any problems - it's just the wired computer that isn't visible any more.
Any thoughts?
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.10)
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Sorry for the silly question - the default setup apparently had DCHP enabled, rather than passing the router's addresses through. This appears to have messed up the system and prevented me from seeing other computers.
The problem went away as soon as I turned off Connection Sharing.

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I am trying to connect my new imac (2.4Ghz,OS X 10.5) to the internet through my Airport Express (v6.3) but have encountered some problems.
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The router is assigning a static IP to my AE (192.168.5.101).
Are you sure that this provided IP address is static? If so, you also need to note the provided DNS server(s) IPs as well.
On the imac I set the Network preferences to manually select an IP address (192.168.5.110) which is out of the range of the Router (192.168.5.101-108).
Since you configured your AX in bridge mode, your computer will be dependent on the NAT (& possibly DHCP) services provided by your apartment's router. Assuming that your landlord doesn't filter out any IP addresses and that the IP address you set is valid, you need to compare your iMac AirPort's DNS server address settings with that provided by your apartment's router to be sure they match.
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