Networking Inquiry; Connect to Mac (From Vista)

Im using a macpro with both Leopard and XP on it; and I'm looking for a way using either or of the above OS' to have a friend using Windows Vista Home Premium to connect to my computer/network from a different state.
I wanted to share some of my projects and files I've been working on, kind of like an ftp thing. so they can transfer them to their computer.
is there any easy way for someone (who would require a straight forward description) to getting it set up properly?
thank you!

This is entirely possible. The question really is how far do you want to go with this because that will determine the path (and the relative ease/difficultly) of setting it up.
So the questions are:
Is this one-way (remote user only downloads files) or two-way (wants to upload files, too)?
If it's one-way then just use the built-in web server (System Preferences -> Sharing -> Personal Web Sharing) and drop your files in either /Library/WebServer/Documents or your ~/Sites folder
Then setup port forwarding on your router to forward connections on port 80 to your machine.
Now the remote user can access http://<your public IP>/ (or http://<your public IP/~username if you put the files in your Sites folder)
From there the user should see a list of the files in your directory and can click to download.
Obviously this only works for one-way (downloads). If you want uploads, too, it gets a lot more complex, so post back if that's what you need.

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I don't remember the exact name of the adapter on my friends computer, but your question prompted me to look through the HP wireless forum and I found that there are compatability issues with the Vista Atheros ( which sounds familiar) driver and and the E series routers. There is a driver update from HP available to fix the problem and I'll try that also if the adapter is Atheros. I think I'll take Vista at least to SP2 first.
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