I can't seem to find the original post where I discovered PureFTPd (damn phpBB search engine), but PureFTPd is a wonderful gem for my humble needs of sharing files and folders between computers on my home LAN. At least on my Puppy v2.12, local information on PureFTPd is sparse at best, so I strongly advise forgetting about the GUI and go hardcore commando with the command line. For this there's appropriate linkage at bottom of the post.
Here's some dope:
1) On my main desktop computer, I start PureFTPd
daemonized from /root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal with this: <StartupCommand>pure-ftpd BADk 90</StartupCommand>
2) Being a hopeless dinosaur from the MS-DOS and CP/M days, I use LFTP - a great command line ftp app made by some clever Russian coders.
3) Set up usernames and passwords for each of the "satellite" computers on the main computer.
4) Set up machine alias names in LFTP's bookmarks file with login scripts, which enables me to have quick network access with the simple command: lftp <machine alias name>
5) Network consists of a hardware router connecting three computers, all via ethernet.
Related
courtesy linkage:
http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/doc/README
http://lftp.yar.ru/
http://www2.papamike.ca:8082/tutorials/pub/lftp.html