since most places work from a document model (word processing, spreadsheet, etc) a document management tool would handle that aspect.<br><br>If they do code, then any of the code management tools like git will work fine.<br>
<br>It does work OK to use cifs on a beefy server as a general purpose file server but the Linux crowd will have to limp. There are NFS tools for Windows but they pretty much suck.<br><br>In short, I've not seen a cross-platform general purpose, scalable, network-based filesystem that isn't cobbled together.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 15:23 -0400, Andrew Sledge wrote:<br>
> A VPN link didn't do it for you? If not, why wouldn't this work? What<br>
> have you tried?<br>
<br>
</div>A VPN link is what would be used in order to connect the two networks<br>
together.<br>
<br>
I'm looking for a way to essentially have single sign on and shared<br>
filesystems that can be accessed efficiently between two geographically<br>
diverse locations with a low-latency (but also low-bandwidth) connection<br>
between them.<br>
<br>
That is to say that there should be a way for both networks to use the<br>
same network filesystem, to agree on the owners and status of file<br>
locking mechanisms, and to be able to transmit changes as soon as they<br>
happen to the other side (or at least notify the other side that changes<br>
occurred).<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
--- Mike<br>
<br>
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