i found vpn but what hosting provider supports that. i tried godaddy and others and its njet ..
i don't want to run my own server. it's gotta sit a some hosting provider, be backed up , duplicated and have 99.999% uptime ..
I used this a long time in the past and it worked well:
http://www.netdrive.net/
Also just found this too.
https://www.eldos.com/sftp-net-drive/download-release.php
growl... why are such simple things so damn hard.
i am trying to get a group of people ,spread over different locations, work together just like as they were sitting in the same building / office and have a local fileserver. VPN tunnels seem to be made for that. but i got no clue if this can be set up at a provider ... i know amazon EC2 allows VPS virtual private servers where you can deploy a server image yadda yadda.. i don't want to do that for various reasons :
growl... why are such simple things so damn hard.
i am trying to get a group of people ,spread over different locations, work together just like as they were sitting in the same building / office and have a local fileserver. VPN tunnels seem to be made for that. but i got no clue if this can be set up at a provider ... i know amazon EC2 allows VPS virtual private servers where you can deploy a server image yadda yadda.. i don't want to do that for various reasons :You are going the wrong way with this. What you need is a version control system. When working with multiple people on the same project you can't simply share files. You need a way to tell who changed what, merge files and go back to previous versions etc.
Indeed. Version control systems also work perfectly for binary data. Deleted something from a drawing? Check-out the previous version and copy&paste.
Indeed. Version control systems also work perfectly for binary data. Deleted something from a drawing? Check-out the previous version and copy&paste.maybe i'm retarded when it comes to these things but explain me how a version control system would work betwween for example 2 schematic files. i can't see how it can tell me: you removed R3 and added C5 . not unless it understands the internal structure of those schematic files.
all it can do is tell you they were different. it cannot tell you what was changed.
unless it can do the above ( tell me what parts were removed and or altered) it is useless for that kind of work.
It can't give you change information.
This is where you are wrong. It can still take the place of a distributed filesystem/shared drive, but will be much easier to set up, more reliable, and have better performance. And, you get versioning for free.
here is my experience with this kind of stuff : we tried using google driv.e that supposedly has versioing built in. good effing luck. you got no cluse waht version you are opening, it messs up syncing and keeps converting my .pcbdoc or schdoc files to .doc extention when downloading them beacuse bloody google drive things any file ending in doc is a word document... they can't even properly parse file extensions. all they look for is the last 3 characters.. they should parse for the characters after the last dot in the filename. So i am very reluctant to go that path again ... too much hassle
anyway, we are deviating. the idea is to run SMB over the internet (wan) through vpn. i don't want intermediate storage, syncing or any other crap. it has to be transparent for the programs we use. so it needs to be visible as a filesystem. Hit save and the master copy on the fileserver is updated in realtime.
Indeed. Version control systems also work perfectly for binary data. Deleted something from a drawing? Check-out the previous version and copy&paste.maybe i'm retarded when it comes to these things but explain me how a version control system would work betwween for example 2 schematic files. i can't see how it can tell me: you removed R3 and added C5 . not unless it understands the internal structure of those schematic files.
anyway, we are deviating. the idea is to run SMB over the internet (wan) through vpn. i don't want intermediate storage, syncing or any other crap. it has to be transparent for the programs we use. so it needs to be visible as a filesystem. Hit save and the master copy on the fileserver is updated in realtime.
It can't give you change information.maybe my understanding of a version control tool is wrong , but : if it can't do that then it is useless.