Let's say a friend of yours has a load of films on the internal hard 
disk on his laptop. You want to copy some of them to your own laptop, 
and the total is about 50 gigabytes.

How do you do it?

Let's say that your own laptop is running Microsoft Windows, but the 
donor laptop can be running anything (e.g. Linux / Mac OS / Solaris / 
XBox / Playstation 3)

Well at the moment here's what I do:

* On my own laptop, give my NIC a static IP
* Enable file sharing on my own laptop and share the folder into which I 
want to copy the files
* On the donor laptop, give the NIC a static IP in the same subnet as my 
own laptop
* Go to a file manager and type \\10.10.10.1\  (= address of my own laptop)
* Copy the files across

Now this method works great, but I'm just wondering if I'm missing out 
on a faster way. Is Samba file sharing fast enough, or should I be using 
something like FTP?

Any other ideas, throw them out there.


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