[ale] Question: Transparent document sharing over the Internet

[aaron]

Why not just use a Gmail account?
Or more specifically, GmailFS.

http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html

Seems this could be adapted to your application, though doing so would be 
closer to trivial if the colleagues in the field were running Linux laptops. 
:-)

peace
aarpm
 



On Tuesday 07 June 2005 18:29, Jason Smith wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is not strictly a Linux question as much as a
> general technology question.
> 
> Problem : Transparent document sharing
> 
> 1. I have a few colleagues who often travel to client
> sites.
> 2. While away and also while in the office, they
> create documents on their (Windows) laptops.
> 3. I would like to set things up so that the latest
> version of project related documents on their laptops
> are available to the rest of the (local) team.
> 4. It would be best if this happened
> transparently/automatically ;as requiring someone to
> manually check in their documents does not seem to be
> effective.
> 5. While working on their laptop they are not always
> connected to the Internet ... so the synchronization
> mechanism needs to occur whenever they do connect to
> the Internet.
> 
> Solutions
> 1. I was thinking of simple solutions like a script
> that woke up every 5 mins and would scp the documents
> over / send an email with the document as an
> attachment and so on.
> 
> Are there more elegant non-obstrusive ways of doing
> this ?
> 
> Thanks
> Coward
> 
> 
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