Hi all,

Currently I have one laptop with 3 standard users, this laptop is incrementally backed up to a server nightly.

I have got a new laptop I am adding to the network and would like to configure it differently.

The server has a hard drive partitioned, user a, user b, user c.

As each user can use either laptop I would like it so that if they work on a file on one laptop then open the file on the other laptop, the most up to date version of the file is opened.

I was thinking to setup the default 'save as' place would be the users partition on the server hard drive over ssh, but I have no idea how to do this. Then I thought maybe a private cloud running on the server would be easier.

I don't know if either of these options is possible or the pros and cons for either.

All advice appreciated and links to more info/guides would be great.

Thanks.

One way is to join the laptops to a domain and everytime they log on it will grab the latest files from the domain/backup server which you should configure to launch once they log off.
Or there is rsync which you can ad-hoc the three other laptops to sync the latest files, but this way it must be connected to all the other laptops at all times.

Thanks for the info, I'm going to try nfs first.

Cheers