pasing data between 2 win XP boxes via internet

[Brian Candler]

Cheers Brian,

Learning more as the days go by.

I have heard of unison but didn't really know what it does .

There is also the commercial solution DropBox (and other similar ones).
DropBox is free for up to 2GB of storage, and I believe has Windows, Mac
and Linux clients.

 

[Dave Lilley]

There is also the commercial solution DropBox (and other similar ones).
DropBox is free for up to 2GB of storage, and I believe has Windows, Mac
and Linux clients.

I've plucked up the courage and dived into OpenVPN.

so will use that as my connection. Think I've actually got a dropbox
account - free version and it has a max of 25mb files to up/down load.

thanks to all who have replied to this call for help - Dave.

 

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

If that's all you want to do - sync directories between two machines
periodically - then don't reinvent the wheel, just install 'unison' and
be done with it:

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Or rsync.

Best,