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I suggested Samba, but he is linux/UNIX illiteriate and does not want to use a server.

While it's certainly a more difficult solution, it makes an awful lot of sense once you get it working. If you use one of these small form factor PCs, you can probably cobble it together as a turn-key appliance. At one point in time, I think there were even several startups trying to sell such things as all-in-one home networking appliances, although I don't know where to look for whatever might have survived the collapse of the dot com bubble.