networking between fedora and macos

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 01:23 -0400, Trevor Smith wrote:
> I took the plunge and bought a PowerBook. Now I'm wondering how to most 
> easily get my Fedora laptop and my new Mac laptop connected via network 
> so I can transfer files from the linux machine to the Mac one (emails, 
> school stuff, etc.).
> 
> My situation:
> 
> 1. laptop running Fedora Core 2
> 2. laptop running Mac OS X 10.3.7
> 3. Lynksys wireless broadband router
> 
> Both laptops are connected and working fine with the router (both 
> wirelessly). I can use the new Mac laptop to access httpd (apache) 
> running on the Fedora laptop and to update a MySQL database on the 
> Fedora laptop with a web/php-based interface I have set up on the 
> Fedora laptop. So the connections are fine.
> 
> Now, what is the simplest way to actually "network" the two machines? 
> Samba? (I hope not, since setting it up would not be what I'd call 
> "simple".) Something easier?
> 

FTP ?

Maybe set up ftp server on one or both and then use one of the many ftp
clients to connect and transfer the files. Wget will also work for that,
as will rsync if you are interested in making exact copies.