At 6:40 PM -0400 7/6/01, kath wrote: >I'm currently working on a large project (web based email). Well >its large for me, anyway. > >I'm working on it with another user (she is in two locations, on one >same machine, was at home and now at university). > >I am on 2 computers: Laptop I bring to home and work and my main >desktop at home. > >Is there anyway for all of us to sync files easily? The closest >thing I can describe how I'd like to do this is MS Frontpage >extensions (But of course, not that). I'd prefer everything to be >done in real time (maybe thats not the right term... I mean that all >of us are using the freshest copy from the server with nothing local >except for images waiting to go up to the server). > >I know if I was editing the files on the server directly, I wouldn't >have to do this, but I prefer using PHPEd and Dreamweaver UltraDev :) > >Whats the best way to do this? > >An idea that popped into my head was a VPN that shares the necessary >files and folders on on the web server. Any other simpler ideas? > >Samba is out of the question, as our ISP at home blocks ports >137-139 (It is part of the "Good Neighbor Policy" among cable ISPs. >Guess it is a good idea because most users are idiots). > >If VPN is the only way, it has to work in a few ways... >1. I'm behind a masqed machine at home and a DSL router at work, so >it must work through those. >2. It has to not involve changes to the network at work (ie, have >to make a tunnel between the two networks instead of between my >computer and the server) >3. All my machines are WinME for client and the main server is >Debian, so it needs to be able to work on ME. >4. Have a good howto/tutorial/manual on it Is there an rsync client for Windoze? rsync is, I think the best bet to synchronize files securely (you can use ssh) between unix boxen, so I'd look for an rsync client, maybe. (If it doesn't exist, this sounds like a cool project.) Michelle -- ------------------------ Michelle Murrain [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
