File Sharing between 2 computers, Linksys Wireless?

I have a newbie question:

I have a desktop with no wifi card, running Windows 2000 professional.
It is usually the fileserver of a network, and my laptop running
Linksys wifi software usually used to login to the desktop before I got
wifi.

I now can sometimes run adhoc on the laptop or infrastructure on the
laptop and get file sharing with the desktop, but this is not something
I can repeat all the time.

I was an MCSE awhile back and understand the basics, but how do I get
the laptop to login and share files with the desktop consistently?

Thanks!

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>I have a newbie question:
>
> I have a desktop with no wifi card, running Windows 2000 professional.
> It is usually the fileserver of a network, and my laptop running
> Linksys wifi software usually used to login to the desktop before I got
> wifi.
>
> I now can sometimes run adhoc on the laptop or infrastructure on the
> laptop and get file sharing with the desktop, but this is not something
> I can repeat all the time.

If you want to do File Sharing in a wireless situation on a consistent
basis, then you need a wire/wireless AP router with the card in
infrastructure mode. Adhoc mode and ICS or File Sharing with an NT based O/S
is suspect to say the least about it. If you go back into the history of
posts in this NG using Adhoc mode with a wireless card and XP or Win 2K and
maybe any NT based O/S and ICS or F & P - S, you'll see it's a hit or miss
and it can go out while it's working.

Duane

> I now can sometimes run adhoc on the laptop or infrastructure on the
> laptop and get file sharing with the desktop, but this is not something
> I can repeat all the time.

Why not, what does it do/not do?

You make no mention of an access point therefore you cannot run the
laptop in infrastructure mode.

> I was an MCSE awhile back and understand the basics, but how do I get
> the laptop to login and share files with the desktop consistently?

With the limited information supplied so far, the answer is "make the
wireless connection reliable"

David.