Vista - Need to designate a "server"... (a comment)

FolderShare is working wonderfully for me, and I use it to sync two desktops
and two notebooks. however, the need to designate at least one machine as a
server that is always on and logged in to my account is a negative -
otherwise truly automatic synching will not take place between all four
computers. The other newly announced synching systems (SugarSync, DropBox)
get around this problem by providing on-line storage.

I am a university faculty member. I can see a lot of potential for our
students and my colleagues if we were able to designate a departmental server
(always on) that would handle multiple users and their synching needs.
However, FolderShare would have to install as a service and allow for
multiple accounts with personalized synching capabilities.

Would somebody on the team please let us know what the future holds for
FolderShare. For example integration with SkyDrive would alleviate the
"server"problem...

Hi Derek,

Great feedback! While we can't comment directly about our product map, your
opinions and suggestions are very valuable to us and are often discussed.

Thanks,
Francisco
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Francisco Garcia-Ascanio
Program Manager
Windows Live FolderShare

"Derek" <Derek@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Can someone form Microsoft please confirm if this is a NEW feature of the NEW
Foldershare.

Thanks.


Mart


"Derek" wrote:

mart wrote:If I read Derek's original comment correctly, no this is not a new
feature. FS has always required one or more of the other library members
to be online in order to sync.

In other words, it's peer-to-peer, not client-server. The server is only
there to coordinate syncing, not to store the actual data.


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