filegive easily sends or receives files point-to-point, with authentication and ciphering, and the other side only needs a Web browser. No third party server is involved in the transfer. It can use common NAT traversal protocols like uPnP and NAT-PMP, manually forwarded ports, or a public ssh server.
filegive is a commandline tool available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS.
Solution provided by Prof.Bettstetter:
After installing OS X Mavericks on a Mac, you can no longer connect from this Mac to a Windows share.
Solution:
On the MAC: System preference (Systemeinstellungen) -> Sharing (Freigabe) -> File Sharing (Dateifreigabe) in the left side vertical bar -> Options (Optionen). Read the note about „Windows-Dateifreigabe“ and chose the user of your choice.
You may also test to uncheck the Share files and folders using SMB and check the Share files and folders using AFP checked.
See https://discussions.apple.com/message/23470245#23470245
Apple released yesterday the newest build of Mac OSX called Mavericks ( http://www.apple.com/osx/ ).
The Update is for free. If you use Matlab you may get Problems with the X11. The solution is rather simple:
just install the package from http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/
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