Best File Sharing Program?

[intocomputing2]

I'm looking to exchange files with a relative who lives overseas, and I need a way to share our files from pictures to home movies. I've heard that FTP is one of the best, but I wonder if it's actually friendly enough for someone who wasn't used it before, or is there any other better way out there? thanks in advance

[shanenin]

I would recommend the the free version of hamachi. It is very safe. You can set up a virtual home network with anyone anywhere.

[Matt]

I agree with the above post.

Edit: WASTE might also be useful in what you are looking for.

Dropbox isn't available to the public yet, but it looks AMAZING.

[intocomputing2]

Can anyone post a beginner's guide on how to use hamachi for transferring folders and big files? I tried their forums but it didn't have any how-to guide.

[Pete_C]

I like FTP , with a Network Attached Storage which has a built in FTP server

Preconfigured ones with the manufacturer providing a web based interface such as the Seagate Mirra / Free Agent and Buffalo Link Station are my favorites

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/networ...ge/linkstation/

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/networ...on-live-ls-chl/

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/review.asp?pid=655

http://www.mirra.com/

http://freeagent.seagate.com/en-us/hard-dr...Free-Agent.html

Basically this way instead of having to have both of you have your computers on to share things; you just save what you want shared to the NAS drive (you can access it through my network places or map it as a drive on your computer or through the web interface) They just go to the appropriate website, and login and they can see the NAS at your house as if it were a drive in their home network and they can save files there, open the files which are there and copy them etc.

You can specify permissions for each file and folder (read, write, edit ..) for each username and password . (IE they can have a folder they can write to but you can only read and you can have the same one they can read but only you can change the contents of)