How do you set up a miikrotik router as a simple AP?

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I just want to create a wireless LAN without any security, no firewall, nothing. Just a simple Wireless Access point like the one you buy off the shelf and use in your home.
I have checked this Tut: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Making_a_simple_wireless_AP but it still seems that i have to do Masquerading for the clients to be able to access the internet.

Could someone direct me to a tut or tell me how i should go about setting it up please.
It must be exactly like an indoor wireless lan, where two windows XP machines can map each others drive, ping each others ip etc.

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/interface wireless
set wlan1 mode=ap-bridge ssid="OpenWiFi" frequency=2412 band="2.4ghz-b/g" disabled=no

/ip address
add interface=wlan1 address=192.168.1.1/24

/ip pool
add name=wifi-dhcp ranges=192.168.1.10-192.168.1.254

/ip dhcp-server
add name=dhcp1 interface=wlan1 address-pool=wifi-dhcp authoritative=yes bootp-support=none disabled=no

/ip dhcp-server network
add address=192.168.1.0/24 gateway=192.168.1.1 dns-server=8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4

And in case you need to program the router to grab an IP from the ISP via DHCP, and perform NAT

/ip dhcp-client
add interface=ether1 use-peer-dns=yes add-default-route=yes disabled=no

/ip firewall nat
add chain=srcnat action=masquerade out-interface=ether1
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Thanks for the super quick reply man, will try it soon.

To connect this to my ADSL, Should i just add a default route with the adsl routers address?

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Is it an ADSL router, or modem? Does it already provide NAT? If you’re looking to just add wireless to an existing NATed network then you don’t need most of that config. If you’re looking to terminate the PPPoE session from your ISP directly on your MikroTik then you do require additional configuration.

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its an ADSL router, already provides NAT. The pppoe username and password is already programmed into the router. Any computer that you plug into the ADSL router automatically is able to access the internet .

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Use this. Change the IP address to something within your local subnet, and outside of your ADSL router’s DHCP scope.

/interface wireless
set wlan1 mode=ap-bridge ssid="OpenWiFi" frequency=2412 band="2.4ghz-b/g" disabled=no

/interface bridge add name=bridge1
/interface bridge port
add bridge=bridge1 interface=ether1
add bridge=bridge1 interface=wlan1

/ip address
add interface=bridge1 address=192.168.1.2/24 comment="Local Management IP"