Re: Syncing WebDAV and local File Drive

[Dag Wieers <dag wieers com>]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, John Summerfied wrote:

> Gavin Young wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 12:46 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> > > Gavin Young wrote:
> > > 
> > > > We would like to maintain a WebDAV and local File Drive of the same
> > > > files however it is possible that files may be edited through WebDAV as
> > > > well as on the local File Drive. Is anyone aware of a way we can sync
> > > > these so both have the latest files?
> > > > 
> > > > We looked at mounting the WebDAV drive locally using davfs then using
> > > > rsync but so far we have been unable to install davfs on RHEL 4 because
> > > > of a coda kernel module dependency.
> > > > 
> > > > I'd appreciate any help people can provide.
> > > 
> > > Is there a good reason NFS or similar won't work?
> > 
> > The WebDAV file drive is used when we are outside our company network
> > (i.e. home or customer site) and all we have is a web connection.
> 
> I think I could make nfs work:-)
> First, a vpn from the (preumably) laptop to home, then mount. You'd want to
> think about user authentication (different from host authrosiation which is
> what the vpn does).

I'm using WebDAV myself because it works from everywhere. It's much harder 
to access NFS (or SSH) from within a customer's network than it is to 
access WebDAV. And it fits perfectly with ical/bookmarks/gnomevfs and 
even Windows. 

The other solution I have to access external sources over a HTTP proxy, is 
described on the following page:

	http://dag.wieers.com/howto/ssh-http-tunneling/

But WebDAV is a solution to works practically everywhere without making 
things overly complex. (It has some limitations as well and I would not 
recommend it for concurrent access by different users though).

Kind regards,
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