Reliable file transfer?

[Victor Odhner]

Alex LeDonne wrote:
> To reduce the overhead, you could NFS (or SMB) mount the dir with the
> file on the target box, then just use cp to copy. Given the local
> router, is encrypting the transfer necessary? Does the source box have
> an ftp or http server running? If so you could transfer the file that
> way.
Thanks.  I'd have to reconfigure to make any of these work.
I gave up on Samba months ago, after a long battle.

Do any of these methods actually perform a reliable transfer?