Airport Express ; Airtunes via ethernet not working...

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Airport Express ; Airtunes via ethernet not working...

Hi there,

I have a problem with my airport and I can't find any solution online...I explain. I have an airport express (version 7.5.2) connected to my network on ethernet. The airport is connected to a router in bridge mode.
When I want to listen music with my laptop on Wifi it work perfectly but I can't make my desktop computer, which is also connected to the router via ethernet, detect the speaker with Airlay and I can't find why !
I already tried to disable firewall of course but no luck...
The only possible cause I see is that perhaps IPV6 is needed to make it work ??

Any explanation ?

Thks

Custom, Windows 7

Posted on Feb 21, 2011 3:06 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 21, 2011 7:20 PM in response to Kaipi Yann

Kaipi Yann wrote:
When I want to listen music with my laptop on Wifi it work perfectly but I can't make my desktop computer, which is also connected to the router via ethernet, detect the speaker with Airplay

Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.

Are your laptop and desktop computers and AirPort Express all on the same LAN "subnet"? In other words, if the IP address of one is 10.0.1.4, do the other IP addresses start with 10.0.1?

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Feb 23, 2011 2:42 PM in response to William-Boyd-Jr

Yep they all have the same ip range, ip given by the dhcp of the router...

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Feb 23, 2011 4:02 PM in response to Kaipi Yann

Kaipi Yann wrote:
they all have the same ip range, ip given by the dhcp of the router...

Sorry, but that was my only suggestion. I can tell you that IPv6 won't help.

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Feb 10, 2013 3:43 PM in response to Kaipi Yann

Your laptop presumably is connecting via Wifi directly to the Airport Express. From the perspective of the AE, it is on the LAN side. Your AE is connected via eithernet to the rest of your network. From the perspective of the AE, this is on the WAN side.

Use Airport Utility to check the settings of the AE.

1) Select the Airport Express Device

2) Click Manual Setup

3) From the icons across the top, click "Music"

4) Is the "Enable Airplay over WAN" checkbox checked? I'm guessing probably not. Click that checkbox and update the AE (it will restart). You should then be able to see it from the WAN/ethernet side.

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