Running Readyshare on two SEPARATE routers

Elaine, I apologise for leaving this thread for so long.  In part, I got involved with other things, but I was also initially confused about how to answer your reply to my last comments.  After thinking about it, I realized that I need to understand the difference between the way I set up my router to act as an AP, and the way you did it.

I said in my last post, "I did not use the AP selection specifically--I simply turned off DHCP and set it up with a fixed IP address outside the DHCP range of the primary router, and plugged it in via a LAN port."  This does get the WNDR3800 to act as an AP, and I don't think I am missing any functions by doing this--or perhaps I am wrong?  You said that you "specifically select 'Enable AP' and just let use dynamic IP address."  I am not sure what selecting "Enable AP" does that is different from what I did.  Does this allow the WAN port to act as another LAN port, sort of turning the router into a basic Switch?  Or does it do something different?  One thing you mentioned is that the router in this case also uses a dynamic IP address--presumably this is whatever is assigned by the main router.

You also suggested "Will you be able to use the IP address to get into the shares that's connected to the WNDR3800?"  If you are talking about accessing the shares on the network, there really is no issue that I can see, since my main router has already found the shares with the fixed address on the AP and listed them under "READYSHARE".  I presume this is the same as it would be if I did it the other way. ("Enable AP" and let it get dynamic IP address.)  As to accessing the READYSHARE shares from outside my LAN, via the internet, I don't know if there is some way to do this using FTP, since the shares on not on the main router, and I don't know if there is a way to specify the IP address on my LAN within an FTP program.

So, what am I missing?

Thanks, if you can clarify,

Michael