[Kim]

Thanks for all the info and feedback you guys. Many thanks Juggernaut,

I've now concentrated all the data on XP and only use linux for admin purposes - writing scripts, rebooting servers etc.

There's a couple of nice XP apps which are now doing the job quite well: doOrganizer from gemx is quite a professional product and good because I can put all my URLs in it with details about expiry and notes. Also all contacts, appointments, planner... All the data is saved to a sql database so getting the data out is a doddle. The other app I'm looking at is the Secure Notes Organizer from secureaction. Problem is it is really only for notes and doesn't handle all the data I need to store. Looks like I'm going to stick with doorganizer.

I've also setup a shared docs folder for sharing data files between linux and xp using SFTP. normal ftp is just not secure enough.

A bit off topic, but when I was browsing around for software, I came across WinSCP. It's a bit like linux krusader file manager. Secure and very good for managing files on a server, it and uses putty as a connector.