Sharing data

[runway78]

hi,
I want to share data/information with a friend.
Stuff i want to share are photos, word documents, video files. Means we can both view them access them, edit them etc.
I have some spare server space or what about a vpn?
Anyone got experience of setting up such a thing?

[ThePassenger]

Ok documents, pictures and such, you could just e-mail him them. Sending video from your ADSL/Cable connection via something like MSN is possible but will be a little slow (your upload will be far slower than his ability to download). You could put it on some commercial grade webspace via FTP or the like, give your friend the login details and let him download it. But it's best to make sure you a) have the bandwidth (you uploading will count as will his download) b) that your provider will allow that file extension to be uploaded (a lot of the cheaper ones outright block .mp3/.avi so as to be absolutley sure they aren't distributing copyrighted material).

[Scraggles]

u can of course use one of the multitude of file sharing sites like bt vault, rapidshare ? etc, mp3's can be renamed to something like mr3 or a non std extension, then goto dos prompt and relabel *.mr3 *.mp3

[runway78]

Thanks, i like the idea of using some of our free web space. That way I can just up load the data and either one of us can access it at any time.