Networking iBook with iMac

I have an iMac G5 connected to an ADSL high speed internet connection. I recently purchased an iBook for travel and wanted to connect it to my iMac wirelessly - for internet and email. However, after following the support on the Mac site and trying to connect the two I don't seem to be able get any signal to the iBook.
Questions: Does the iMac have the ability to transmit signals with its airport card? Do I need to have a separate external Airport station to make this happen? Can I access the internet and mail through this wireless connection? From all that I read and was told it should be fairly easy but I just haven't been able to make it happen. Thanks.

Hi Peter,
Here're the instructions for sharing an internet connection from Mac Help.
Sharing your Internet connection
If your computer is connected to the Internet, you can share its connection with other computers on your local network.
For example, if your computer is connected to the Internet using a DSL modem and has an AirPort Card installed, you can share the DSL connection with other AirPort-equipped computers.
     1      Open System Preferences, click Sharing, and then click Internet.
     2      Choose a network port from the "Share your connection from" pop-up menu.
     3      Select "Built-in Ethernet" or AirPort depending on which computers will share your Internet connection.
John

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1) I tried renaming /private/etc/smb.conf to smb-OLD.conf and restarting. I still couldn't hit the server, and when I ran testparm after that, it said that it couldn't find smb.conf. So it didn't create a new smb.conf file. (Please excuse me; I'm not very technical and I barely understood your reply!)
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Hi
Sorry my description was a bit off!!
The IMac is situated in the study and is conected to the Airport Extreme Base Station via ethernet cable...
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Firstly please forgive if this problem has been posted before but unfortunately i haven't yet been able to find a solution to my problem.
I cannot seem to get my wireless network to work since updating my Airport to v5.7. I have reverted back to 5.6 but with no joy. OK, here's my setup - I have an iMac G5 1.8 which is connected to my airport via an ethernet cable (it is plugged into the correct port) and an iBook with an Airport card to connect wirelessly. The airprot is connected to my ADSL modem which is a D-Link 300T. When set up like this my iMac cannot connect to the internet even though my iBook can. When i take the4 iBook and Airport out of the equation my iMac connects fine to the internet via ethernet cable direct to my modem.
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