Sharing large files with W2K or WinXP

[John Haxby <jch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is probably slightly off-topic for this list, but I know there's 
some good people reading this list.

I want to share large files -- files too big to fit in a FAT32 file 
system -- between Windows (2K or XP) and Linux.   I use NTFS to store 
them on Windows at the moment, but access to them from Linux is somewhat 
limited.

Now, I know that I could build a kernel with NTFS write access enabled, 
but I'm rather loathe to do that considering that NTFS write access is 
generally regarded as, shall we say, somewhat dangerous.   NFS and Samba 
aren't, I'm afraid, an option since (a) it takes forever to copy a 15Gb 
file across the network and (b) (more to the point) NFS and Samba 
require both machines to be up at the same time and this is a dual-boot 
machine I'm talking about!

Does anyone have a solution to this kind of problem?

thanks
jch