ejfiii

How the heck to I setup Dtools at the office when the laptop is connected to the lansync server so that when out of the office I don't have to start VPN and check out projects every time I want to open one?

I know how I check out the project and then disconnect from the lansync on the laptop before leaving for the night but I typically only do that on the current projects.

Instead I just want to open dtools and use the file that is stored locally on my laptop and then sync it back to the server when I am in the office next. I am the only user and have a desktop at work and this laptop so file sharing isn't an issue.

What am I missing?

TIA

RandyB

The simple answer is that you should check out all projects you may wish to work on before disconnecting from LANSync. You may be the only user on your system, but LANSync does not know this and therefore it must maintain access control on all projects. Checking in and checking out is the way data integrity is maintained.

- Randy

flcusat

Originally Posted by ejfiii

How the heck to I setup Dtools at the office when the laptop is connected to the lansync server so that when out of the office I don't have to start VPN and check out projects every time I want to open one? I know how I check out the project and then disconnect from the lansync on the laptop before leaving for the night but I typically only do that on the current projects. Instead I just want to open dtools and use the file that is stored locally on my laptop and then sync it back to the server when I am in the office next. I am the only user and have a desktop at work and this laptop so file sharing isn't an issue. What am I missing? TIA

EJ, Did you find a solution to this?

flcusat

Originally Posted by RandyB

The simple answer is that you should check out all projects you may wish to work on before disconnecting from LANSync. You may be the only user on your system, but LANSync does not know this and therefore it must maintain access control on all projects. Checking in and checking out is the way data integrity is maintained. - Randy

I lost a couple of projects last week when my laptop was stolen from my truck. It would be great if we could have a solution like EJ asked.

David_Haddad

Hi Pedro!

Sorry to hear about your laptop, that sucks. The last laptop I bought for one of my employees I purchased Lojack for laptops, perhaps you will want to look into that for your next one:

Absolute Software - LoJack for Laptops

Luckily we have no idea how well it works!

Regarding your question, could you clarify how you want it to work? I am not clear on what you are asking for. I have worked with quite a few document management programs and they are always going to require check-in/check-out, there's no other way to avoid conflicts. However even if you check a file in the last file is still on your laptop but as read only. So if you were in the field, as long as you had "disconnected from server", even if you had not checked the file out you could copy that file to a different location, make it a writable file, and then work on it even if you had not checked it out. Then when back at the office you could import it as a new project, or if you like living dangerously overwrite the old file on the server (the guys at D-Tools probably hate me even saying that since they are the ones that will have to take the tech support calls). But of course all of this assumes the file on your laptop is still as new as the one in the office and that you are not modifying what is now an old file - which is why check-in/out exists to protect that from happening.

I'm not certain what you are asking for though - would that solve your issue?

You could also try some type of sync scenario but that could be asking for major problems/file corruption.

flcusat

Hey David good hearing from you. I was looking more like a solution to be able to get connected to the server remotely. Like in a VPN scenario so I could check in and out projects any given time without being physically at the office.
Are you going to be in Atlanta in two weeks?

David_Haddad

Hi Pedro, EJ indicated in his first post he did not want to use VPN, so when you asked him if he had found a solution I assumed you did not want a VPN one. I am pretty certain some people have implemented VPN and also seem to recall it was easier to pull off with 5.5 due to the change to the latest version of SQL Express.

You may want to see if you can pull it off with Hamachi, which is a ridiculously cheap ($50 a year) "hosted" VPN solution by logmein (don't worry, all your data is kept on your PC's). I've used their products with great success. I do NOT know however if you can use it with D-Tools, you would have to try. https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp

Not going to CEDIA.