[tkmd]

I have a buddy who just bought an PB. Since I suggested the Apple and have been a user for a while, I have some files and pictures to transfer to him. Is there a way to transfer about a gig worth of stuff over the 'net? He's in FL and im in MI. Additionally I really dont want to copy files into my Public folder (no enough space on my hd).

Is their a utility that he could connect to my 'book and pick out stuff?

[Uncle Skeleton]

there are lots of ways (hotline is easiest, if you can still find the sofware anywhere), but your friend won't know what he needs. Easier would be if he turned on ftp sharing and gave you his password, then you uploaded whatever you think he should have. There are dozens of FTP clients, and many are free

[Brass]

Originally posted by Uncle Skeleton:
there are lots of ways (hotline is easiest, if you can still find the sofware anywhere), but your friend won't know what he needs. Easier would be if he turned on ftp sharing and gave you his password, then you uploaded whatever you think he should have. There are dozens of FTP clients, and many are free

tsk, tsk... no distributing of passwords now!

But Uncle Skeleton's suggestion is mostly good. I'd suggest something similar:

Tell him to create an account for you on his computer, and to tell you what the password is for that account. Then tell him to turn on FTP, or AFP, or SMB or whatever is your preferred method of transfering the files. (NB: AFP is quite slow over the internet, FTP is probably best). These can be turned on in the Sharing pane of the System Preferences.

Then you can connect to his computer, upload all the files to your own account on his computer, and tell him where they are. If you want him to have easy access to them, put them in your Public folder on his computer. However, if he's an admin user, he can get at them whereever they are.

[superlarry]

Originally posted by Brass:
tsk, tsk... no distributing of passwords now!

or he could just tell him to change his password afterward :cP anyway i'm sure his "buddy" trusts him.

i agree otherwise, though - ftp is fast and pretty easy.

if you want to do it securely (in case of any sensitive information), have him turn on "remote login" in Sharing in the System Preferences and you can do this from the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal):
get to the directory to copy. for example, if it's on your Desktop:
cd ~/Desktop
(~ is a little placemarker for your home directory. it works from anywhere as a nice shortcut)
then do:
scp -r "His Folder" username@x.x.x.x:~/Desktop

It'll ask you for his password.
This does a secure copy (using SSH) from your computer to his Desktop. This requires a little overhead, but probably very low at the low speeds you'll get over such a distance.
Of course, in that command, replace "His Folder" with the name of the folder, replace "username" with his short username (which can be found in the Accounts panel of the System Preferences when an account is edited).
A status of each file transfer will be shown. I think this is pretty neat :c)