[Kroupware] Automatic server discovery

[Brad Hards]

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On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 04:22, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> OK, IMAP will do this for Mails. What about contacts, notes
> and all the other stuff?
>
> How can I write dates, notes and so on, and back connected to
> the server, I have to do thousends of clicks to get all
> synchronized, or will everything work because I told what to
> do in the prefs?
If you have a true client-server system, them I'm not sure. I imagine that 
iCalendar will do at least some disconnected operations - I'm not that 
familiar with the scheduling applications, since I'm still carrying around a 
5cm thick diary :-)

If your system is really transferring a few files backwards and forwards, and 
then you view them, something like rsync might help (unix+windows). Depending 
on how much you need to transfer, maybe the Unison filesystem might help. I 
think it runs on windows now. Clearly this won't work if everyone is changing 
one big file - you need a synchronisation tool that understands the contents 
of the file in order to do a correct merge of the changes.

Brad

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