Create a Wireless accesspoint with 2k3 and a wireless card

[Arrow_Runner]

In my operating systems class at school, I've taken the role as the sysadmin, and after getting things set up ahead of time, I decided to bring up the idea of creating a wireless access point with one of the usb to wifi adapters we have extra.

Is that possible to do with windows 2003? After some research, I've only found Linux implementations of the idea.

[nmX.Memnoch]

At first guess I would say it's definitely possible. There may be some specialized applications to make this happen, but you can definitely do it with what you already have. Setup the wireless adapter on the Server 2003 box in an Ad-Hoc Wireless configuration. Then use RRAS to "share" the wired connection with the wireless. Now just configure the remainder of the wireless machines to use the same Ad-Hoc Wireless configuration. I'm not sure how secure this is versus an actual WAP, but it should work.