On Friday 01 April 2005 08:03, greg wm wrote:
> hi tcluggers,
>
> what reasonable ways are there for working on things both "from the
> office and from home"?
>
> i sometimes run rsync to pull stuff from the other location.  just
> better not run it in the wrong direction by mistake or you trash
> all your recent changes.  or if you forget to run it you then have
> to manually merge diverged modifications.
>
> i can imagine setting up nfs through an ssh tunnel.  but no, nfs
> had enough little gotchas i'm so happy i haven't used it in ages,
> just on a lan, nevermind outside the lan.
>
> i routinely use vnc.  it works.  but slow like molasses in january.
>  and hey ultravnc even has file transfer.  but i don't use winders
> if i can help it.
>
> i'm using courier imap for email.  really it's a very nice remote
> filesystem.  and by golly i've attached files to a draft through
> vnc and then saved them locally.  but i don't expect it's fair to
> imagine trying to use imap outside mozilla.
>
> what comments or suggestions can y'all offer?
>
> greg
> --

I may be way off base here in understanding your needs, but perhaps 
WebDAV would do what you want.

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel