A Secure File Transfer Protocol session is similar to a File Transfer Protocol, or FTP, session, but with the added security of encryption. When you use SFTP to make a connection to a server that ...

To share files and printers on a network, Microsoft Windows uses Server Message Block -- also called Common Internet File System -- a protocol that streamlines communication between computers. Mac OS ...

In my previous two posts on the subject, I explained why you’d want to use X11 to drive a host remotely, and the basics of configuring your Mac to run OS X’s X11 server and to use local X11 software.

Those with long memories may recall that in the early days of the internet and for many years into it, there were two methods of retrieving email from a server: POP3 and IMAP. (POP and POP2 were long ...