Need to distribute file across work network!

gord · 15 Dec 2010 at 09:48

Hello all,

I'm looking to distribute a quick parts document across our work network so that everyone seamlessly has the same file version to use in their document creation.

However, I'm struggling to find a foolproof way of achieving this. Solutions we have been thinking about include dropbox and a network share with a login script to copy the file over.

Thing is, people off site make the login script unreliable and dropbox doesnt seem capable of syncing a file to specific folder.

Does anyone else have any ideas? Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks

gord · 15 Dec 2010 at 10:43

All on Windows, from XP to 7. Less than 1MB.

I've just downloaded a bit of software that syncs a folder on our ftp to my machine, but I think its overkill. Did you write your own script?

gord · 16 Dec 2010 at 09:37

I need to remove the user from doing anything really to make this worthwhile. Most people won't be able to edit it at all.

My logon script would automatically copy the file to the right location on their drive without them doing anything. This is a quickparts template after all, and people won't understand copying it to their appdata folders. The problem with the logon script is a lot of our people are off all over the world and so the logon script won't always work, to my understanding.

This is why I'm looking for solutions using FTP or an online service to sync the file to users machines. A one time setup on users machines is acceptable.

gord · 16 Dec 2010 at 10:25

So does a logon script always run? Because surely it's contained on our netlogon, and if that's not found then the script won't run?

Or are you talking about a local logon script for each laptop?

gord · 16 Dec 2010 at 10:40

They won't always be away. They should be checking their emails every day, so they need connectivity. I'm evaluating a bit of sync software that has quite a good scheduler built in.

gord · 17 Dec 2010 at 09:21

namnoc said:
I did it myself as it is part of a much larger application and has to keep track of around 300k files.

Could you shed any light as to my problem and where I should be starting with writing my own script? I assume you can't share you're script. I only need to track the 1 file.

gord · 17 Dec 2010 at 10:24

I think that's as close as I'm going to get to an elegant solution. Trying to work around the fact the user may not have internet connectivity at logon is becoming a pain. The only real way it appears to solve that is have some real time file monitoring going on.

While the software I am trialling does do that it would be a pain to deploy and manage.

I have fairly limited bat script skills, but nothing a few Google's wouldn't sort out.