Anyone with experience and advice? Just point me in the right direction, please. I work part-time downtown (on Windows platform), and sometimes need a file sitting on my Linux box, at home. What I need is PuTTY? http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ Will it work like this? ("Ports" and whether or not they are "open" is still way over my head.) MyRH9box --> LnksysRouter --> CoxCbl --> Internet --> MyWindowsBox I suppose I should expect to get command line, not my Gnome Desktop. Many thanks.