I'm using Samba & NFS. Samba for my wife's laptop and my laptop (windows partition). NFS for my laptop (slackware partition) and mythtv box.

Both servers run out my old desktop which has 3 1-TB raid 1 discs for storage. Server holds all docs and media. All clients connect to the server wirelessly but I intend to wire them soon.

You can use wildcards with scp to send multiple files with one command.

I just tested it, because it's been a while since I did it.

I ssh'd into another box, made a directory, then exited ssh. I entered the source directory on the local box (I picked a small source directory) and entered

They all made it.

yes but what if I want files:
dih9x73
slicyhi82
dichoi2
siuck3323
xicoic88987

and I don't know exacly what's in the directory and the following will be too broad?
di* sl* si* xi*

Now I have to open up an ssh login and mouse copy all the file names over.

wouldn't logging in to ssh once and manipulating them like a normal mounted directory make a lot more sence?

Single file was limited in my terminology

I ment single simple transaction

Excuse me for not being specific when the topic it self was broad.

I don't need to type scp and host information a million times just to copy all the data I may need at random times. I would rather just mount it once using an ssh/fuse file system and manage it like normal files.