Providing the Windows 2000 "Make Available Offline" functionality on NetWare
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Q:
We recently merged with another company that uses Windows 2000 as it its file & print. Laptop users use this "Make available offline" option on folders which sync the folders/files to their laptop from the server when they log off. I've now moved them to NW6.5 telling them how much better NetWare is compared to Microsoft, but they have now lost their offline folders option (not good).
Anyone have any ideas as to the best way to achieve this with NetWare?
A:
Absolutely. Use iFolder, a killer app if ever there was one. Not only does it do all the syncing, it offers the additional advantage that files can also be accessed via web browser. Your users will love it.
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Reader Comments
- iFolder is not an option, since it does not work with team folders.
- Using iFolder you cannot select different directories on different drives, everything has to be at the same place, it’s either everything or nothing. The concept behind it seems to be ok but it needs to be worked out much more. The solution is not flexible at all. You cannot try to sell this to a user just because you have the possibility to access it from the web; and even there it needs some fine tuning too. It’s the same thing with the synchronization when you guys are saying it is a bit level synchronization, hardly no corporate application out there in the market does bit level therefore the whole file has to be re-synch.
- 2 possiblities nowadays: ifolder 3 and native file access. However both are in this situation not a definitive solution. Offline files within native file access is not cool because you loose all the advantages of a real novell environment. Ifolder is not in every situation useful because files are no longer accessible as before. Maybe this helps http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/