Ah, right. I use Linux too as my main OS, but I just assume most people don't. ;p

I don't use sshfs as suggested by some commenters, mostly because I'd probably forget to unmount it or something and then if I mounted it in the wrong place updatedb would start indexing it next morning. ;p What I actually tend to do is either scp or a combination of ssh+tar, such as:

ssh dh-sophie@hack.dreamwidth.net "cd somedir; tar zc *" | tar zxv

I do this when I need to transfer multiple files. since I've found scp to be abysmally slow at that, if there are a lot of files, even with compression on.

Hope that helps. :)