I'm with Nate. Assuming that your DSL modem is a NAT Router/Firewall type device, things should be fine. In your internal network you then don't have to worry too much about security, unless you're going to let strangers wander in and plug their device into your switch. This is the simple solution you're looking for. scp/sftp will only need minimal setup and is always a good way to go. I once played with snfs, but that's a bit more complicated. If both machines will be getting a public IP address, you'll want to be running some sort of firewall on both machines. As they would both be on the Internet, you would want to stick with secure protocols like ssh/sftp/scp, or establish a VPN between your computers. (Open VPN or Hamachi would do the trick http://www.hamachi.cc/). Going down this route however would not be the simple solution that you're looking for. -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue >0; 0 rows returned