GUI LAN transfers

[R.M.Deal]

I am trying to move Edubuntu or Ubuntu into our international school as
the standard operating system.  Right now, I have a major problem:
My users are teachers mostly who are NOT going to use the command-line
at all.  So my question is, how do I provide my users with a simple graphic,
icon-moving technique for taking documents (say in OpenOffice) created
locally and storing them in a central server?

Related to this question is:  How do I tell my users how to send their
documents to a remote computer printer or a LAN printer, graphically?

Please let me know if this is a FAQ but a search I just made of my
collection of recent Ubuntu digests yielded nothing useful.

    Best,  Ralph M. Deal,  volunteer assistant in IT at the
       Thuringia International School in Weimar, Germany