On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:36:51 -0600, ray wrote:

> In my general experience, if you want to share files but only for a few
> times download, an easy way to do that is to run apache web server on the
> local machine and put the stuff to be downloaded (or a link) in /var/www
> (or wherever your distro starts the web server tree).

I agree with that as well. Samba can be a real pita.

You can also use webdav (web folders) with apache. This was good
with the old version of windows IE when it supported it, you could just
drag and drop files into the browser so that you could upload as well as
download. Unfortunately it's no longer supported in the new IE. It still
works with Linux though. In Ubuntu (Gnome in general?) go to
Places->Connect To Server and select webdav.

Dan