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Hello all,

 

We have two offices connected to the internet via Router and ADSL.  These two offices currently access, create and edit documents via a shared folder/mapped Network drive on a Sharepoint Hosted Service.

 

The problem is that this storage is now full and I am looking to expand our online storage.  I have purchased the Link Station Pro Duo as I thought I was able to just map the drive to the two offices.

 

First issue is that FTP will not allow the direct editing or creation to the share; merely the transfering of Documents.  FTP will not map as a network drive either.

 

Looking at the Web Access, again means I cannot map the drive to the two offices as they have to go through the Web Interface.

 

After some research it appears that I need WEBDAV, which is how we are currently using our service and I do not see any kind of fix or hack for it.

 

Can anyone suggest how I might be able to buy a storage device being mapped outside as if it was an internal windows location so that document can just be edited without the need to move them. i.e. the default save location in office can map to it.  Also certain folders will need to be passworded.

 

Any ideas would be very welcomed, we are a small charity and cannot afford an SBS Server.  Looks like I am going to have to send the NASDrive Back.

 

Cheers

Mik

London

The Windows File Sharing (SMB/CIFS) protocols are not optimized for working directly over lower-bandwidth links like those between your two offices. Your best bet would be some sort of VPN solution. Windows Server would probably be the easiest to set up a VPN tunnel between the two offices, but I can understand your reluctance, since that is a fairly large investment. There are several Open Source solutions that wouldn't require an inital investment, but depending on your skillset, this may not be a possibility. The one I've played with a bit was OpenVPN, which sets up a tunnel over SSL. It works on Windows, but if you have Linux experience, it will probably be much easier and better performing if you use a link between two Linux boxes or two routers running DD-WRT.