Windows Live FolderShare

Windows Live FolderShare beta

Ever realized you needed a document that was on a different computer from the one you were on? With FolderShare, you can access your files from anywhere.



Keep all your files in sync
Use FolderShare to create a mirrored image of your most important folders - like your Favorites, Pictures, and Documents - so they're the same on all your computers.

Sharing files is easier than ever
Sharing with friends, co-workers, and family is easy when you add and update files in a shared library. Large files? Not a problem - FolderShare can sync files up to 2 GBs in size. And it works on both Mac and PC.

Get to your files instantly when you're away from home
Install FolderShare on all your computers, and you can access all your files from any computer on the Internet.

File sync feature can implement remote printing solution for distribute print-to-file from DOS application.

Making your local time server

Atomic TimeSync from AnalogX

How do you set the time in your house? I don't mean do you know how to set the clock on your VCR, but what TIME do you actually enter? Do you just use the normal 'best guess' approach that practically everyone else does? If so, then get ready for the real deal - set your clock using THE timekeeping source, the National Institute of Standards and Technology. NIST maintains the primary frequency (time) standard for the United States, and operates a special server using the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to allow Internet users to get the time from them! Of course, if you're not based in the US, don't worry, you can go to the NTP Homepage and get a listing of servers worldwide, so you can pick the one closest to you.

Once ATS is set up, you can have it periodically set your system clock; plus it even has a built-in NTP server so you can synchronize all of your other computers quickly and easily! You can even specify a custom time offset to ensure that it sets your clock just the way you like it (I like my clocks 10 minutes fast, so I'm always a bit early).

Although this small program has not updated since December, 2001. It can run smoothly on Windows XP/2003. Without "run as service" feature, you should place the shortcut to "Startup" folder for autorun when login or make a schedule task.

Within any local network you can config one computer acts as time server, retrieve correct time from outside. Others simply installed as client and sync time from the local time server.

more info: How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows Server 2003

Cobain Backup great freeware for your server

Cobian Backup is a small and simple utility to backup files and directories from some place in your computer to another place in the same computer or to a shared drive in another machine.You can set the program to automatically make a backup within regular intervals of time, for example daily, weekly etc. Cobian Backup offers additional support for PKzip compressions and can be run as a service under NT/2000/XP.

New on version 8

• The program uses now Unicode functions whenever it can. Using compression
  and FTP will use ANSI functions, of course because of limitations on those formats or the FTP protocol. If you don't use compression or FTP, the program will always handle your file names as Unicode.


• The program uses now memory mapped files for inter-process communication.
  All the TCP communication used in older versions has been eliminated.


• A new method of encryption has been added: RSA-Rijndael, which uses a 256-bit Rijndael encryption with a random key that is itself encrypted used a 1024-bit RSA asymmetric key.


• Sensitive settings as passwords are now stored in the ini file using strong encryption


• The program is now a "green" application. All the files are stored in ini files. The only part that used the registry is the service, which, for obvious reasons must be installed using the registry. A green application, of course is not necessarily a good thing, but some people (often for "religious" reasons) seem to think that this is a good thing. Oh, well...


• A feature allows you now you execute individual tasks under different user accounts. The task will then try to impersonate the user and execute the task under that account.


• The 256 characters path limit is now GONE thanks to Unicode. The file and paths names can now be up to 32000 characters long.


• Now you can close programs using also their class names.


• Better SQX error handling.


• Full service control from the Option dialog.


• The mirroring effect that you got while compressing AND overwriting has been thankfully eliminated.


• LOTS of bugs fixed


• A better user interface.


• FTP transfers of larger files (> 2 GB are now supported)

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm