[mAxximo]

I have a file at home that didn't finish rendering by the time I left for work and I need to copy it over to my work computer. I enabled SSH before leaving this morning and I got this: “To log in to this computer remotely, type "ssh massimo@adsl-xxxxxxxxxxx" at a shell command prompt.”

I guess that's in Terminal?? And then what?
TIA

[Millennium]

Actually, you'll have better luck with scp than ssh. Both are enabled when you enable SSH access, so you're fine as far as that goes. Use the following in the Terminal:

Code:
scp massimo@adsl-xxxxxxxxxxx:file-to-copy copy-file-to-here

file-to-copy is the path to the file on the machine you're copying from. Note that there's no space between the hostname, the colon, and the path to the file.
copy-file-to-here is where you want to copy the file to. You can just use "." if you want to drop it into the current directory with the same name it had before.

SSH will ask you for your password, and then it will handle the rest for you. Note that you can reverse the operation by attaching the user@host: ("massimo@adsl-xxxxxxxxxxx:" in your case) to copy-file-to-here instead of file-to-copy, and upload files to your home machine. They can go anywhere that the user you're logging in as could put them. It may even be possible to use two different user@host combinations and use your machine to copy files between two other machines, but I've never tried that.

[mAxximo]

Cool, thanks!
The file is on my desktop, would the path to that be /Users/massimo/Desktop/file.mov?

[analogika]

yep.

[OreoCookie]

You can use various GUIs, too. You don't have to use the Terminal.

Just one of them:
http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/

If you want to look for others, do a google on MacOS X sftp.

[Millennium]

After a little more research, you can also use sftp, which (like scp) is enabled and disabled as part of SSH. This may be the easiest method of all, because it works just like an FTP client aside from the name of the client. In fact, if you have a GUI FTP client that supports SFTP, such as Transmit, then you don't even need the Terminal at all.

[OreoCookie]

sftp looks like ftp from the outside, but every command is called using ssh.

[mAxximo]

Great, I'll look for a free FTP app that supports SFTP. Thanks!

[OreoCookie]

The one quoted above, fugu, is for free.

[mAxximo]

Crap, it's rejecting my password...
I'm using fugu.

[CharlesS]

My favorite free client is Cyberduck.

Make sure you're using both the same username and password that you use for SSH.

[mAxximo]

Cyberduck worked fine, thanks! It's copying now...
I tried Terminal before reading your message and it connected fine too but couldn't transfer the file because “Command not found”....

[JHromadka]

Another vote for Cyberduck. I use it all the time to xfer files to my mini server at home.