Secure file sharing without OS X server?

Well, that's about it. I've got these 'ere Macs - one running 10.3.9,
the other running 10.4.7. I'd like to have a secure file sharing
connection between them.

So I poked the GUI a bit - Finder, cmd-K, hit `Browse' in the `Connect
to server' window, open the required server in the network browser, and
get the `Connect to the File server ...' window.

In both 10.3.9 and 10.4.7, there's a set of option settings. One of
them says `Allow secure connections using ssh'.

All well and good, except that if I try it, I get told

`Can't make a secure connection to server [blah blah blah]

So I STFW, and found a document from Apple which explains that MacOS X
Server but not Mac OS X `normal' will provide AFP mount points which can
be accessed using ssh. And Apple boasts about MacOS X security, does
it? Hmm...

But from what else I read out there, there does seem to be some method
of configuring ssh via the command line so that it will encrypt a file
sharing session.

So: does anyone have a pointer to either a nice GUI app to configure
that sort of thing (to avoid pain), or failing that, a pointer to some
comprehensible documentation so I can learn how to do it the hard way?
From what I've picked up at the moment, it looks as if I'm going to have
to learn `All about ssh', and I don't fancy doing that with Web based
resources, let's put it like that.

Cheers,
Rowland.

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