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Well,there are many ways to do that:
Samba, FTP, scp and NFS.
To mount (as root!) a samba share, first create a mountpoint "mkdir /mnt/ibook" or so and then mount it there:"mount -t smbfs -o username=YOURSAMBAUSERNAME,password=YOURSAMBAPASSWORD //IBOOKNAME/SHAREDFOLDER /mnt/ibook/"
Maybe it works with the IP insted IBOOKNAME
Samba have sometimes problems with files bigger than 2 GB.
FTP works with every system.
scp = Secure Copy is encrypted
and NFS can te tricky.
Depends on your environment: Private LAN, Company network or Internet.
IMHO, Samba is good with windows computers or files smaller then 2 GB.
For a safe transfer (through the Internet), you shold use scp. It's very cool, due you can copy from any place to anyplace, you dont need to share a volume, mountpoint or similar !
And NFS is like the Samba for UNIX: You can mount a remote directory, CD, ... and it looks to you as it would be built in your Computer you sit an. It's transparent to the user, but wrongly used, it can be a trap: If your NFS-Server disconnect (Network problem, media change or switched off) you go can go down too, because your system don't give up to search it. In the past, sometimes you had to reboot the client.
If the command line interface is enough for you, then just open a terminal and type: "scp MYFILE REMOTECOMPUTER:/TARGETDIRECTORY" to copy a file to the remote computer.
You can also get a remote file if you know place and name: "scp REMOTECOMPUTER:/TARGETDIRECTORY/HISFILE LOCALDIRECTORY".
On the Mac, I think you have to change the security settings to allow this.
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