[Tfug] OSS equivalent of M$ FolderShare?

[Matthew T. Eskes]

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't  this foldershare sound a lot like the
proposed WinFS that Microsoft wanted to incorporate into Vista?

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of
Angus Scott-Fleming
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:28 PM
To: Tucson Free Unix Group
Subject: Re: [Tfug] OSS equivalent of M$ FolderShare?

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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Angus Scott-Fleming
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