Manage AEBS From Wired Computers

I have a LAN with 7 or 8 computers connected. All but 2 connect wirelessly. I have yet to assign static IP addresses and intend to shortly. Part of the reason for static IPs is that one of the wired computer's IP changes from time to time and then I need to change the port mapping to it.
Now for the dumb part ... why can't I manage (administer) the AEBS from the wired computer? When it's IP changes I have to go to a wirelessly connected computer to administer the AEBS. From the wired computer neither the AEBS or AExp show up in the Airport Utility side bar, the Utility says it can't find any and to make sure they are in range, blah, blah.
Thank you

If you already have the AirPort Utility in the \Utilities folder there probably isn't any reason to reinstall it unless it isn't the latest version. Currently that would be v5.5.3.
If you have an 802.11n AirPort Extreme, you could consider using the DHCP Reservation feature to assign a "static" IP address to any device that you will be port mapping to. This feature allows you to assign an IP address out of the DHCP pool to a network client based on its MAC address. You would then only need to do this for that device and all others can still be set up as DHCP clients.

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