[Tfug] OT: Remote multi-user file services for small group if Apple users

[Louis Taber]

Hi All,  I guess I need to add the detail that the employees ate all in
Tucson, but there is no "office".  All of them work remotely.  - Louis

Thanks Nathen.  I will look in to box.net.  - Louis

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Nathan Hruby <nhruby at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Louis Taber <ltaber at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > My daughter, Megan is interested in setting up remote file sharing for
> her
> > company, all (five) of them are apple users.  They have about 100GBytes
> of
> > data & about 10Gbytes/month of transfers.  None of them are very
> technical.
> >  It should be redundant & easy to use.   They want to use it as a backup
> as
> > well as file exchange.  It is a small company and would like to keep
> their
> > costs down.
> > What hosting service would you suggest?
> > What protocol/service would work best?
>
> For super easy DIY, they can use the file sharing support of an Apple
> Airport Extreme with an attached USB device which supports AFP and
> CIFS.  This might be ideal if the majority of their file transfer
> needs are within the same office (it will share via WAN as well).  If
> they're all Mac it's highly possibly they have everything they need to
> make this happen already just sitting around.  This doesn't solve the
> off-site backup requirement, but hey, its is free ;-)
>
> For hosted services, I recommend box.net.  They have a new native mac
> client that will handle syncing in the background as well as a very
> nice web-based UI.  I think they offer a lot of value-add for actual
> company-wide file sharing (locking, version history, etc..) versus
> file-depot operations such as dropbox.
>
> HTH!
>
> -n
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