Opening a port issue: I Need to open a port in an airport extreme.

I Need to open a port in an airport extreme, but I'm connected through an airport express in bridge mode.  I need to access a specific computer inside my network through that port to be able to use it as a server.  I can't seem to find the correct way to set everything up.  I've tried opening the port and everytime I check it through telnet or any open check tool on the net it keeps saying the port is closed.  I'm stumped.

After digging around it looks like Snow Leopard doesn't use ipfw for opening ports.
Does anyone know how to open ports in Snow Leopard? Apple don't seem to have any info on this - besides the allow incoming connections for certain applications.
Will try WaterRoof and see what happens.
Cheers
Ben
Message was edited by: Ben Sciascia

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