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Topic: Keeping files in sync between laptop and desktop
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Daryl C. W. O'Shea
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From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from)
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 11-01-2004 04:26 PM
quote: Randy Stankey I don't know for sure but Windows has GOT to be up to speed on this by now:
With my Macs, a piece of ethernet cable is all you need to have a "network". You simply make sure that file sharing is activated on one or both of the comptuers and that the network settings are correct. Bang! You have a network
There's nothing for Windows to be up to speed on. "Windows" could do this before Apple even switched to using ethernet, instead of AppleTalk over the serial interface.
To two computers, using a single crossover cable between the two NICs instead of a stared hub or switch based network, appears exactly the same. There's nothing in the terminal or NIC to make hubless networking work. You're just flipping the RX/TX pairs the same way a hub or switch would.
If you've got auto-sensing NICs you might not even have to use a crossover cable. That's not an Apple thing either, though, since they use the same ethernet chipsets everyone else does, which are made by only a handful of companies.
Anyway, while I use rsync a lot, I vote for a simple thumb drive for your application. They negate the need for having both machines together to transfer files and are convenient if you're only dealing with a handful of documents. Keep backups though, as some people have be known to corrupt their thumb drives' data. Usually by unplugging it before unmounting it (Windows = stop device) or mounting it as the wrong file system type.
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Randy Stankey
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posted 11-01-2004 10:12 PM
quote: Matthew Peters
I think we might be missing the point, Ken seems more interested in a file-synchronisation program, rather than hardware.
Basically, I assumed that in order to syncronize files on two computers you had to somehow connect them together first. Ken said that he didn't have a network. If you have two computers and an ethernet cable (or what have you) you DO have a network.
Software to sync two computers would be useless if there was no way to get data from one place to another. Using floppies, thumb drives or memory cards just ain't going to cut it.
Thus, the reason I mentioned the hardware.
Daryl,
I just don't DO Windows. Really. I don't know how that shit works, nor do I care to know more than I absolutely have to. That's the reason why I said that they have to be "up to speed".
Maybe it would have been more clear if I had said, "With the amount of standardization in networking, I would be supprised if you couldn't..."
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Matthew Peters
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From: Glen Waverley, Melbourne, Australia
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posted 11-02-2004 06:22 AM
For future reference, and for anyone who is a “Microsoft Sheep” like me and couldn’t care less about the 10% of radical computer users who must use every possible alternate browser/open source/non-standard/anti-Microsoft stuff heres a tutorial on My Briefcase.
My Briefcase tute quote: Using Briefcase If you use two computers to work on the same files, it is easy to become confused about which copies are the most current. Briefcase helps you make sure files remain identical on both computers. For example, if you have a computer at work and a portable at home, you can save the files you want to work on at home in your Briefcase folder. Then you can move Briefcase to a floppy disk and edit the files on your laptop. When you take the floppy disk containing Briefcase back to your office, you can instruct Briefcase to update the files on your hard disk, according to the latest date and time stamp.
If you want to update files without using a floppy disk, you can do your update over a network or use Windows XP’s Direct Cable Connection application with a serial or parallel cable.
To all anti-Microsoft extremists don’t take this post as a personal attack, if some of my friends have their way I think I’ll be converted soon, it’s becoming a religion.
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