Re: Re: [Micronet] Mac to Windows Server Sync Software?

On Jul 13, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Aron Roberts wrote:

>> We now have several Mac users who use our Windows server
>> who are now asking what they as Mac users can do to achieve
>> the same result.
>
> There's a terrific site, XvsXP.com, that compares the built-in
> features of Windows XP and Mac OS X. Regarding the off-line
> synchronization feature you describe in Windows, there's nothing
> comparable built into Mac OS X:
>
> http://www.xvsxp.com/system/data_sync.php

Hmmm. This article totally overlooks the fact that if your network
uses OS X Server and you have Mac clients, then users have not
one, but two ways to sync files and folders and misc data
transparently.

Windows users on a Windows network have synching.
Mac users on a Windows network don't.
Mac users on a Mac network do.

http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/workgroupmanagement.html :

Network and Portable Home Directories
You can also use Workgroup Manager to provide network-based home
directories, so users can access their own personalized desktop,
applications and files from any computer on the network — or use them
to back up their work. With Mac OS X Server v10.4, PowerBook and
iBook users can now enjoy synchronized versions of home directory
folders locally and on the network. When a user goes offline, her
home directory goes with her, so she can continue to work just as if
she would back at the office. When she reconnects to the network, Mac
OS X automatically syncs up selected content in her local home
directory with the one on the server.

--
Scot Hacker, Webmaster
Graduate School of Journalism
UC Berkeley
http://journalism.berkeley.edu
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The following was automatically added to this message by the list server:
For information about MAGNet, its meetings and events, and its
mailing list, including information on subscribing and unsubscribing,
see the MAGNet Web site at <http://magnet.berkeley.edu/>.