[mayfun4all]

Hi all,

I'm looking for some answers re: how to connect two macs over the internet.

I would like to do three things:

1) I have a friend in town, and we would like to share files. We're looking at about 80 gigs going both ways.

2) My parents live out of town, and I would like to give them access to my iPhoto pics and imovie videos so they can always be up to date on their granddaughter.

3) When I go out of town, I'd like to have access to all of the files on my computer.

A little background -- I have a 20" imac G5. I have DSL behind a 2wire DSL modem which I'm fairly sure is also a router, since I have 3 computers hooked up to it (my imac and ibook wirelessly, and my PC with an ethernet cable). My friend has an imac G5. My parents have an ibook. When I go out of town, I take the ibook (obviously).

I've spent the entire morning searching various forums on how to accomplish these goals, and I think I'm actually more confused now than I was before.

Do I need to use webdav, ftp, ssh, sftp? I don't really know what any of this stuff is. I keep seeing references to changing things in the terminal. I've never used the terminal, and quite frankly it scares me a little bit.

What's the best way to do what I want to do that's free (or real close to it), that I can be walked through, and that doesn't leave me open to some goon wrecking all my data?

Please help...

Thanks,
Darren

[harrisjamieh]

1) Your planning on doing this locally, yes? ie not over the internet (i hope, as 80 gigs over the net is absurd!!). Get yourself a firewire cable, and connect the 2 macs together - the quickest way to transfer files between 2 computers

2) Pass, but look into photocasting on Apple's site

3) Look into FolderShare, a free service that lets you sync files between 2 comps over the net, and access all your files on your comp from a remote location

[mayfun4all]

I have an external drive I could take to my friend's house, but I was hoping to just do the transfers from the comfort of my own home. I figured I could just let them run overnight...

What about using VPN? Would that work for all of the things I want to do? Is it easy to set up?

Thanks,
Darren