You may already be familiar with NFS and Samba for sharing files over a network. While these are both great distributed filesystem solutions, they require extra configuration and setup overhead in order to get them to work. If you want quick and easy access to a remote filesystem then SSHFS may be your best shot.
SSHFS [...]

At various times it is necessary to restrict the users which can access a certain host. If your network relies on SSH it is as simple as changing an option in the sshd_config configuration file. You will of course need root access to make the necessary changes to this file and eventually reset the SSH [...]

The ability to remotely SSH into a machine running an Ubuntu LiveCD can come in handy in many situations. The LiveCD supports a large variety of hardware and can be used to troubleshoot system problems on a machine where you have limited or no access. A user with limited skills can easily setup remote access [...]

SSH allows secure (encrypted and authenticated) connections between two hosts. These connections include terminal sessions, file transfers, TCP port forwarding, as well as X window forwarding which I will be covering here. X forwarding is a form of tunneling that allows you to run a GUI application on a remote machine but let you [...]

scp allows you to securely copy files locally or remotely across a network. It uses SSH for data transfer and uses the same authentication. If you do not have public key authentication enabled you will be prompted for a password.
This basic format for scp is this.

scp [options] [[user@]src_host1:]file1 [[user@]dest_host2:]file2

Assuming the remotehost has a username which [...]