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I think James McKinney put it the best way:

Software solutions for idiot problems only make more incompetent idiots.

I love that!!  So craft your solution with company policy, education, and something simple that is robust and easy to use.  I wouldn't worry too much about extra features.  Just a good remotely accessible file server with appropriate accounts and the right company policy should be enough.
Dow




Jason Smith wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>This is not strictly a Linux question as much as a
>general technology question.
>
>Problem : Transparent document sharing
>
>1. I have a few colleagues who often travel to client
>sites.
>2. While away and also while in the office, they
>create documents on their (Windows) laptops.
>3. I would like to set things up so that the latest
>version of project related documents on their laptops
>are available to the rest of the (local) team.
>4. It would be best if this happened
>transparently/automatically ;as requiring someone to
>manually check in their documents does not seem to be
>effective.
>5. While working on their laptop they are not always
>connected to the Internet ... so the synchronization
>mechanism needs to occur whenever they do connect to
>the Internet.
>
>Solutions
>1. I was thinking of simple solutions like a script
>that woke up every 5 mins and would scp the documents
>over / send an email with the document as an
>attachment and so on.
>
>Are there more elegant non-obstrusive ways of doing
>this ?
>
>Thanks
>Coward
>
>
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