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Article #13Re: Need advice in buying server
From: Bob Goddard
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:18
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:18
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Anthony R. Gold wrote: > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:57:13 -0000, "Graham" > <graham@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> Tell us more about your application ... > > It's really more of a NAS than a server. I want to be able to > synchronise a bunch of distant Windows workstations and have found a > useful application in a p2p package called FolderShare now from > Microsoft. > > The workstations are the different private personal computers of > family members and so no particular files are being altered by more > than one > person. The somewhat nomadic members of my family would like to > arrive at a location with one of their computers and find all their > own files > current with the ones one the computer they last used somewhere else. > But rather than ensure all the workstations are online at the same > time I believe it will be simpler to have a central server running > 24/7 which can collect and redistribute the changes. You don't really want to have a Windows system on the internet serving files, do you? Personally, I'd put OpenBSD in place with SSL connections. -- http://www.mailtrap.org.uk/
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