[techtalk] File sharing over the internet

[kath]

I'm currently working on a large project (web based email).  Well its large for me, anyway.

I'm working on it with another user (she is in two locations, on one same machine, was at home and now at university).

I am on 2 computers: Laptop I bring to home and work and my main desktop at home.

Is there anyway for all of us to sync files easily?  The closest thing I can describe how I'd like to do this is MS Frontpage extensions (But of course, not that).  I'd prefer everything to be done in real time (maybe thats not the right term... I mean that all of us are using the freshest copy from the server with nothing local except for images waiting to go up to the server).

I know if I was editing the files on the server directly, I wouldn't have to do this, but I prefer using PHPEd and Dreamweaver UltraDev :)

Whats the best way to do this?

An idea that popped into my head was a VPN that shares the necessary files and folders on on the web server.  Any other simpler ideas?  

Samba is out of the question, as our ISP at home blocks ports 137-139 (It is part of the "Good Neighbor Policy" among cable ISPs.  Guess it is a good idea because most users are idiots).

If VPN is the only way, it has to work in a few ways... 
1.  I'm behind a masqed machine at home and a DSL router at work, so it must work through those.
2.  It has to not involve changes to the network at work (ie, have to make a tunnel between the two networks instead of between my computer and the server)
3.  All my machines are WinME for client and the main server is Debian, so it needs to be able to work on ME.
4.  Have a good howto/tutorial/manual on it

Thanks!

- k

p.s. btw,  I know I might get flamed for this, but super duper security (Quadruple 3DES etc) is not required for this.  Just really looking for functionality over security, at least now.
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