Yup. That's a good use case. IIRC, scp can also do a checksum on the transferred file to make sure that both the source and target are identical, though for that you're better off using rsync which uses the same protocols, and is insanely powerful and flexible.
“though for that you’re better off using rsync which uses the same protocols, and is insanely powerful and flexible.”
Thank you for the reply, Personally I have never really had a need yet. I did hook two together to see if my option to connect a MS PC to my linux PC would work but I wasn’t worried about security. This mint comes boxed with samba setup in the network manager and it was a breeze. But I know at some point I am definitely going to need this knowledge, probably on one of my kids networks, so I much appreciate the rsync suggestion! :)