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I've found it - The Ultimate ReadyNAS companion! AeroFS :)
Like many of us here, I've acquired a few ReadyNAS boxes over the years... And a few laptops, and a few desktops, and a WHS..... and...... you get the picture.....
Well, I was thinking this evening, wouldn't it be great if I could have the "Dropbox" like sync between several NAS shares, or folders on my mac, or folders on my win7 machine all together. I know you can obviously do this with dropbox, but what if I don't want to sync my 1TB to the cloud, hell, what If i want it on a private LAN with no internet connection, what if I'm a cheap bas@£%% who wants to do this all for free? That got me searching, and searching, and searching some more..............
I eventually came across these guys "AeroFS" - It's basically a Dropbox client without the need to sync to the cloud - It works over P2P, either over the internet or over your local network! SHWEET!!
They even have Windows, Mac, and Linux installers!!!!! But here's the catch.... I know nothing about Linux, and am Poop scared of breaking my NAS :)
Anyone willing to help me try install this?
Totally amped!
Well, I was thinking this evening, wouldn't it be great if I could have the "Dropbox" like sync between several NAS shares, or folders on my mac, or folders on my win7 machine all together. I know you can obviously do this with dropbox, but what if I don't want to sync my 1TB to the cloud, hell, what If i want it on a private LAN with no internet connection, what if I'm a cheap bas@£%% who wants to do this all for free? That got me searching, and searching, and searching some more..............
I eventually came across these guys "AeroFS" - It's basically a Dropbox client without the need to sync to the cloud - It works over P2P, either over the internet or over your local network! SHWEET!!
They even have Windows, Mac, and Linux installers!!!!! But here's the catch.... I know nothing about Linux, and am Poop scared of breaking my NAS :)
Anyone willing to help me try install this?
Totally amped!
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- Chirpa was gonna give it a bash..... Follow him on twitter, as I'm sure he'll tweet when he's got it working.
Gurutek wrote: Chirpa was gonna give it a bash..... Follow him on twitter, as I'm sure he'll tweet when he's got it working.
I'd forgotten all about this, has anybody got any further with it?- *Bump*
Anyone manage to get this working with a readynas?
I have an Ultra and just got my invite for the AeroFS.
And if not this, have you found another alternative to put on the NAS and replace dropbox?
Cheers! - I have just downloaded AeroFS and will start playing around with it. It seems that you'll need to install the AeroFS Server on your NAS, and the client on your machine.
Furthermore, I have looked at BT Sync, and it seems to be a rather solid product too. I will test this one too, and if it turns out to be a better product than AeroFS: I will create a thread for it. - Anyone got this working under ReadyNAS yet?
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