Steven W. Erbach
serbach at new.rr.com
Thu Dec 18 10:14:35 CST 2003
Martin, >> If the client has Win XP Pro then they have an IIS system there. << Alas! Alackaday! They have Win XP Home because it's cheaper. But I could persuade him to buy one copy of Pro if, indeed, what you say about IIS is true. >> FTP drop boxes? Are these folders on the IIS that the users would use to work with DBs? << Yes. In my painful journey through the intricacies of Indirect Synchronization, I've found that it's a four-step process: 1) User 1 uploads changes to his replica to Drop Box 1 on an IIS Server; 2) User 2 downloads from Drop Box 1 and merges changes with his replica; 3) User 2 now uploads his own changes to Drop Box 2; 4) User 1 downloads changes from Drop Box 2 and merges with his replica. In my initial, incomplete understanding of Indirect Synchronization I thought that one could simply set up your garden variety FTP folders any old place on the web, just so that each user had a different folder. The bane of my existence has been that Replication Manager will not accept the address of an FTP folder on the web as a valid location for a Drop Box. There are still some other details I'm fuzzy on. This whole experience has been fuzzy and frustrating. Regards, Steve Erbach Scientific Marketing Neenah, WI 920-969-0504 Message created with Bloomba Disclaimer: No tree was killed in the transmission of this message. However, several coulombs of electrons were temporarily inconvenienced.