Filesharing with other OSs in public network [solved]

[orange_juice]

Hallo!

I am running several gentoo family boxes behind a firewall. I also have a couple of old desktops sitting around doing nothing.

I need to share occasionally some files of 10-20 MBs with other people outside my private network who mainly use Micro$oft's products.

I would like to ask for the safest way to do that but at the same time I need my friends to be able to follow it.

I would appreciate your help!

Kind regards,
orange_juice

[CrankyPenguin]

Depending upon how those files need to be shared and how "secure" they are I would suggest either SSH/SFTP or putting them on a website. If you don't mind who finds them then just post them on a website and pull them down once your friends have them. Failing that SFTP runs ftp over ssh and can be used to provide the same basic interface while using SSH encryption. All that you have to do there is open up SSH on one box. There are many good SFTP capable gui's including one from the Mozilla project.
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