Creating wireless LAN authenticating without server

[jonathan96]

I am trying to allow a group of 2-10 laptops to be able to leave the main company wired LAN, move to a different site and establish a wireless network together. I have set them up with 2 hardware profiles, enabling/disabling either of the NICs (wired or wireless) and this works fine. The conditions are such that all the laptops are windows 2000 pro and the users need to login under their domain accounts (if possible). The main reason for them needing to be networked is to run an application which runs locally but accesses data from one "master" laptop (ie: a shared folder)
The "master" laptops can be always the same machines but the others connecting to it could be any of a pool of 20. Due to not having a W2K server in this setup, I have manually assigned IP addresses to the wireless cards. How can I authenticate to the "master" laptop? Do I need to use a workgroup or a trusted domain, or is there a simpler method that I am overlooking, please help, I am desperate

 

[InfrArch]

They all must belong to the same workgroup.
IP addresses, Subn.Masks must be OK.
File and print sharing service must be anabled on each PC.
(try to ping each other to eliminate network problem)
On the master laptop there must be a 20 (in your case) user's account for other 20 users to get access to the master PC's directory.
Don't forget to set a correct permissions for a shared folder on the master notebook!
No domain in your case is necessary.




Victor K
psas@canada.com
MCSE+I;MCSA;MCSE(w2k);CNE(5.1);MCNE(6);CIWSP;CIWSA.