On 8/2/2011 11:21 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: > Having said that, I can also use my USB flash drive to > transfer some files between those laptops and the > machine running centos. But it's quicker for me to use ftp > over the LAN. Even faster is Dropbox. If you keep the frequently-synched files in your Dropbox, you don't even have an explicit copying step. It just happens, over the LAN if possible, via the Cloud otherwise. For files sufficiently small, it happens during the time it takes you to switch machines.