Volunteering - Direct dial-up file transfer between 2 PCs

We're a couple of volunteers setting up PCs in the remotest villages of India in the state of Rajasthan. Anyone's help would be greatly appreciated--

PROBLEM: To keep costs low, we want PC1 to dial directly into PC2 and transfer files both ways (without Internet). Dial-up sequence would then repeat among other PCs. All PCs are Win XP SP3 and have a 56K modem.

Can anyone suggest some freeware or low cost software to do the file transfer (with built-in error correction, retries, etc. e.g. zmodem or something)? Should not involve too much operator knowledge (if it has scripts, we can write the scripts/macros).

Have tried:
a) PCAnywhere but apparently has a lot of overhead bytes making the transfers slow (~ 15k bits/s).

b) Token 2: Don't know how to make it pick up the call on the called PC. So doesn't connect.

c) AbsoluteTelnet, War FTP Daemon, CommNet. Same problem for these 3 applications and also no place to put host settings (like caller's user name, pw, etc.)


Need assistance urgently as we have some goals to meet. Thank you for your time and help.

Best regards

 

fidonet...kinda
Hyperterm, but it would be done manually. Its comes with all Windows to XP (that I know of) and does file transfer.
You might be able to find some info about BBS, like fidonet that passed around info.
ah.. BBS's...

 

What we really need is a benefactor to provide you with a cat5 wired network.

I don't know if this will do the job exactly, but at least you can give it a look see. And it's freeware!

http://www.spiceworks.com/?kw=Netwo...usca00001066&gclid=CJD5rviL5ZkCFR7yDAod3WHRSQ