Airport Express + MyBook Live (no internet wireless media server)

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Airport Express + MyBook Live (no internet wireless media server)

Hello all,

I am a cruise ship musician and want to create a wireless media center in my cabin. Here is my thought:

Airport Express + WD My Book Live + Speakers

What I want to accomplish is to have a network in my cabin soley for hosting my NAS Drive (My Book live) that my MacBook pro can access and play music via airtunes to the speakers also attached to the airport express.

The whole idea is to get rid of all the cables I need to attach to my laptop just to listen to music in my cabin (External HDD and Speakers). Can I do this by putting the AX into "bridge" mode as I have read about in other discussions (this network is intended ONLY to be used to provide wireless access to the NAS Drive)

Will this work?

Thank you

Airport Express-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Sep 17, 2011 2:58 PM

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Answer 1

Tesserax

Level 10

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Sep 17, 2011 3:34 PM in response to Daltonjazz

Yes, this should work. The AirPort Express Base Station (AX) would not get a Public IP address, but it would have a Private IP address of 10.0.1.1 ... and it would be providing wireless clients, including the WD My Book Live, connected to it with Private IP addresses in the 10.0.1.2 - 10.0.1.200 range.

AirPort Utility > Select the AX > Manual Setup > AirPort > Wireless

Wireless Mode: Create a wireless network
Wireless Network Name: <enter a desired Network Name or SSID>
Radio Mode: <leave the default or select a desired radio mode>
Channel: Automatic
Wireless Security: <select the desired wireless security type>

Internet > Internet Connection

Connect Using: Ethernet
Connection Sharing: Distribute a range of IP addresses

Internet > TCP/IP

Configure IPv4: Manually
IP Address: 10.0.1.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Router Address: 10.0.1.1
DNS Server(s): <leave blank>
Domain Name: <leave blank>

Internet > DHCP

DHCP Beginning Address: <leave default or change to a desired starting address>
DHCP Ending Address: <leave default or change to a desired ending address>

Music

Enable AirTunes (checked>
iTunes Speaker Name: <leave default or enter a desired speaker name>

Advanced > Logging & Statistics

Allow SNMP (unchecked)

Your AX will still report at least three errors: 1) Configuration of WAN, 2) SNMP over WAN, and 3) Double NAT. These can all be safely ignored to stop the AX's status light from flashing amber in this configuration.

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Answer 2

DrPips

Level 1

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Jan 24, 2014 11:20 AM in response to Tesserax

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I'm after doing the same thing and I'm struggling. I get setting the Airport Express up like this, but my problem is that as I subscribe to itunes match, for some reason my iphone tries to play every song over the internet, rather than accessing from the Mybook live.

What am I doing wrong?

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