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This came up this weekend and we had a lively discussion about the following situation. Without giving spoilers the party was facing a fire based creature. One of our two Clerics used shield other on our Ranger and cast resist fire on himself.
When the Ranger eventually took fire damage he (the Cleric) applied HIS fire resistance to the shared damage he took. The discussion was, would the Clerics fire resistance apply to the damage shared to him from the Ranger? Basically is literally half the "fire damage" being transferred to the Cleric or is the spell simply sharing half the damage (regardless and independent of source or type) being shared. Our DM allowed the resistance to apply but I am afraid if I was DMing I would rule against that.
To me the spell transfers half the trauma to the other character not literally half of the spell or physical damage induced including properties/material/effects that caused the damage.
/pulls pin and tosses
//seriously looking for opinions especially official ones
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I see nothing in the spell description for Shield Other that indicates the damage transferred would or would not inherit the original type of damage. As such, I think both the way the OP's GM handled it, and the way the OP said he would handle it as being viable interpretations.
Personally, I would run it as including the damage's type, and allowing DR to affect the damage normally. Hell, I would even allow multiple DR effects to stack on the different people.
For example:
Cleric casts Fire Resist 5 on Ranger
Cleric casts Fire Reist 5 on himself
Cleric casts Shield Other on Ranger
Big Bad Fire Elemental hits Ranger for 25 damage
Ranger shaves 5 damage off the top, reducing damage to 20, Ranger loses 10 HP
Cleric receives 10 fire damage through the Shield Other, Cleric's DR reduces that damage by 5, Cleric loses 5 HP.