[Tfug] OSS equivalent of M$ FolderShare?
Angus Scott-Fleming
angussf at geoapps.com
Wed Sep 12 21:28:23 MST 2007
On 11 Sep 2007 at 15:55, Paul Lemmons wrote:
> I am kinda interested in this as well and I think the point of the
> service in question is being missed by the answers I have seen so far.
> It is really easy for two computers running *nix to stay synchronized
> when they are on the same network and visible to each other. It is a
> different situation all together when your "base" computer is at home on
> the cox network and you are sitting with your laptop at work or school
> or Coffee eXchange and you want the two to stay in sync. In this
> scenario there is NAT, DHCP addressing and firewalls that make this hard
> or imposable.
>
> The FolderShare service acts as a proxy between "base" and "remote" and
> supplies a connection regardless of NAT or DHCP addressing (firewalls
> still have the ability to get in the way). So, the question, as I see
> it (OP correct me if I have missed the point), is: are there other
> choices (OSS desired) out there that supply this service?
You got it. What I'm after is real-time synching of Firefox profiles, where
any changes to the local profile folder are mirrored to other machines through
a shared folder somewhere out there. Manual synching won't do what I want.
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