Wired & Wireless Printing & Networking

I have an iMac G5 , a Powermac G5, an iMac G3 and 2 Powerbooks in my house, all connected to the internet.
The 2 imacs are connected to a 3rd party router via ethernet, and the Powermac G5 & the laptops are connected via airport express which is connected to the 3rd party router.
The laptops and the powermac are all on one network, and can share files, music and printers, but the 2 imacs seem to be on thier own seperate network, and can't 'see' the wireless computers. is there any way that i can get all of them onto one network and share printers,music and files between all of them? any replies appreciated, thanks. All computers are on Tiger apart from the G3 imac which is on 10.3.

Your problem is that your computers are on two logical networks. The ones connected to the router directly are receiving their TCP/IP configuration from the router and the ones connected to the Airport Express are receiving their configuration from the Express.
What you need to do is stop the Airport Express from acting as a DHCP server so that all computers receive their configuration from the router. To do this login to the Airport Express using the "Apple Airport Admin Utility" now disable the "Distribute IP addresses" option. Once you have done that you may need to reboot the two computers connected via Airport to ensure they receive the new TCP/IP configuration from the router.

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