StarDestroyer.Net BBS

I need to make a small website accessible within my home LAN. My purpose is to download various files into my wifi enabled smartphone and netbook. Example I would go to "192.168.1.5" from my phones browser and download "boring.pdf". I am running windows vista premium on my PC. Is there a quick and easy to use webserver for doing such a thing ?

As a sidenote being able to upload files from my mobile devices via wifi would be cool too. Especially for my nokia phone, uploading photos via PC suite and USB cable is a pain. Is there any off the shelf CMS type software for making a simple file upload site ?

Try: http://portableapps.com/apps/development/xampp for the webserver. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_WAMPs
This would also give you the PHP software to run a CMS ontop of.

Try HFS

If you just want to trade stuff with yourself and friends, use Dropbox. Makes more sense and is more reliable then some home-cooked thing. For platforms with native clients it syncs using the LAN if two clients are present on the LAN.

Other then that, if you specifically need file-serving over http/ftp, just bring up the IIS that's included in every Windows. Vista has, I think, IIS 7 built in and that is more then capable of being a file server, can run both ASP.net and PHP, and you can easily find some free web app for stuff like image gallery and so on. Instructions on how to turn it on.