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I have a laptop and a desktop I want to keep files up-to-date on both of them. I was thinking of creating a hard drive on 'server' and then changing "my documents" to that server path. It should work all right when there are two computers but what if a laptop uses wireless access at my house and more importantly, when it's connected wirelessly on a different IP range when I'm at college?

For the second case, I guess, creating a VPN/remote server connection to the desktop will work, but if I want to make it automatic (my documents mapping), is there way to do that?

An Dorfer
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user1078719
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Gab asked a similar question in a more explicit manner. He already investigated some solutions:

  • Unison
  • OwnCloud
  • Sparkleshare

Keep in mind, that Unison is not under active development any more and UTF8 filename encodings require Cygwin.

Community
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Stefan K.
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If your file sizes are that small, it makes sense to just use a service like Dropbox.

If you haven't heard of it before, it syncs the files in that folder across all systems you install it on and provides online access to the files as well. (Let's suppose you're in the library and realize you wish you had paper1ThatIsImportant.docx).

I would recommend if you are worried at all about security, that you enable two step authentication (which requires an authenticator app from a smartphone/ipod touch/etc. or recovery passwords)

Other programs exist, but that gives you 2.5gb free to start with chances to gain more. And Dropbox is simple to get up and going.

nerdwaller
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install OwnCloud on a server, open your firewall and install

Client(s) for Windows/Mac/Linux. It will work as DropBox, but yours

jet
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