It would be good if you could also include some of the many shareware products. For example, BarracudaDrive is very easy to setup for the average home user: [barracudadrive.net]

An easy alternative to the above is to use the tunnel server in BarracudaDrive together with Firefox UPA Edition.

A WebDAV server works much better than FTP and is much more secure. Check out this article for how to configure your own home WebDAV server for Foxmarks:

FTP is an obsolete and outdated protocol.

FTP is an obsolete and outdated protocol.

Using WebDAV as a replacement for FTP

Check out the free BaUPnP tool, which automates the port forwarding:

if you like WebDAV, check out the BarracudaDrive home server with integrated WebDAV server.

You are not browsing in stealth mode using a browser unless you do some very tricky configurations.

@Sander: WebDAV is great as a standard file server, but I doubt that the WebDAV "repository" extension will ever be popular as the specification is flawed. That is probably why it is hard to find any information on this as no one manages to properly use the specification for practical use.

You can use BarracudaDrive if you are willing to pay for a product. BarracudaDrive is a web-server with a number of plugins that extends its functionality beyond normal web-server use.

@Opus: Use BarracudaDrive and the portable GetMyLAN client as an alternative. The portable GetMyLAN client requires no installation. BarracudaDrive and GetMyLAN is a SSL VPN product. The GetMyLAN home page is: [GetMyLAN.com]