Multi building connection and sharing

I have a small business that has three buildings. Due to the buildings having storm windows/brick etc. trying to create a wireless network between all three buildings has been possible, but not something overly robust.
All three buildings need to share resources, printers and file sharing resources.
I was thinking of wiring each of the buildings and then doing a wireless router in each building as an access point, but from what I have read so far it seems there are limitations on filesharing.
Has anyone tried something like this before.
I'm not neccessary looking to create three segments, is it possible to get 3 linksys WRT54GS routers. Have one that my ISP connects to (parent) and hardwire the other two routers to it (children). Then the computers would connect to which ever wireless router was in the building. It sounds like I would have to turn off DHCP services on the two child routers.
Does anyone have any experience in this? would it work?

Well I had a standard wired router/DSL modem with 2 PC's sharing the internet and bought a wireless Laptop. I was given a WRT54GS and at first thought I could replace the old router with it however I then found out the WRT54GS wasn't a standalone DSL modem so I effectively made it run as a wireless acces point. I only use the network for internet sharing but I don't see why it wouldn't also let me share files and printers. When I check the DHCP Clients table on the old parent router it lists all the PC's connected to the network by MAC address and IP address whether they are connected to the child or parent router so it looks like everything has full functionality.

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