Thanks in advance to all that impart suggestions/advice/wisdom.
I have purchased 2 D-Link 614+ wireless routers and 1 D-Link wireless NIC. My mission is to connect the wireless NIC, installed in a PC1 in building B, to the wireless router1 in building A. The router is connected to the wired network via ethernet in building A. Eventually I would like to connect other PC's in Building B to the wired network in Building A via wireless NICs.
I was able to establish connectivity to the wireless router1 from the wireless network card in PC1 (Windows 2000 OS). I tested the speed of the connection and downloaded files at a speed of 230 to 240 kbps.
If I logged into the network with the admin logon and password, I could expand the drive mappings and explore them but I could not see anything but my own system in Network Neighborhood. If I logged into PC1 with a regular user name and password I received an error that the domain server was unavailble to authenticate me and could not open a drive mapping or see the wired network in Network Neighborhood.
I believe this issue is due to the fact that I used a different IP addressing scheme (192.168.x.x) on the wireless NIC and the Building B side of the router. On the Building A side of the router I have used the IP addressing scheme of Building A. Do I need to set up a trust relationship from my NT server to allow access from this "foreign domain"? I am not using DHCP on the wireless router. All wireless IP addressing is statically configured.
Originally I hopped to use something like a Wireless Access Point in Buiding A to connect the NIC in PC1 in Building B. I didn't think the WAP by itself would provide connectivity to the wired network though so opted for the router. Did I "over buy"?
I purchased the second wireless router becuase more PCs in Building B will want to connect to the wired network in building A. Right now I have good connectivity because PC1's wireless NIC is about 25 feet from the router in Building A and both devices are facing each other through windows. The other PCs in building B won't have this luxury so I thought the router would improve connectivity for PC2, PC3 and PC4 when brought on line. Is this faulty logic? The building is about 20 feet tall - single storey, and about 350 x 250 feet. I don't know where the other PC's will be located in terms of proximity to the second router. I hope I can move the second wireless router away from the window in Building B to allow for a more central location for it when I add the other PCs. Will router2 talk to the PCs in building B while also providing connectivity to router1 in Building A?
Thanks again for any assistance,
M Brown
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