As a *nix user, I'll probably just export some part of the device's filesystem over nfs, mount nfs shares from other devices in my network, scp stuff over to/from the device or, in a really nerdy/geeky style send tar [1] streams over netcat [2], either way

[1] http://man.freebsd.org/tar
[2] http://man.freebsd.org/nc