Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

You are better armed to make use of the SSH tool with an understanding of four key SSH files. If you are a Linux administrator, you know the value of Secure Shell. Without this tool, remoting into a ...

SSH, or secure shell, is a Unix shell used for secure communication between two networked computers. You may wish to securely download files from a remote system ...

SFTP and rsync are two tools that can help you transfer files across networks and the web. Here's how to use them within macOS. There are many occasions on which you need to transfer files between two ...

If you have more than one Linux computer, you probably use ssh all the time. It is a great tool, but I’ve always found one thing about it strange. Despite having file transfer capabilities in the form ...

Ubuntu includes a variety of utilities for connecting to secure shell servers. The standard "ssh" command connects to the remote SSH server and provides a terminal prompt that you can use to run ...

Secure Copy is a UNIX standard used to transfer files from one computer to another. He's how to use the function in macOS, all via the Terminal window. Before personal computers, there were mainframe ...

I know, the obvious answer is CPU load. However. I recently set up my little home file server again, and I didn't bother to set up any r/w samba shares so I could just leave everything at r/o guest ...