[techtalk] File sharing over the internet

[Michelle Murrain]

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
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Michelle Murrain
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