Thanks people. Installed ftp and it works as expected.

Thanks again for the suggestions. Both pis now have proftpd installed. I have checked the status with sudo service proftpd status In windows (sorry, it's what I know!) you could then do something like ftp 192.168.0.2 What is the equivalent in linux? I just want to do a simple example like transferri...

Thank you for the reply. I have now just connected the two pis. They can ping each other so all is good so far. Is there a simple way to get them to share files with each other (without connecting one of them to an external hard drive and setting it up as a file server)?

I am trying to network some pis with a couple of windows 7 laptops. Because I am not using a router, I did not set the gateway. Windows seems happy with this but the pis do not. I set the relevant lines of /etc/network/interfaces to iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.1 network 255.255.255.0 Th...