Drive Sharing

[dmw16]

Ok, so here is my situation. I split my time between 3 places - campus, my apartment, and my GF's apartment. I do a decent amount of matlab for classes and I dont want to ever have to worry about forgetting files somewhere or working on something and leaving it where I was. I have an iPod that I can use as a jump drive and work off of that, but is there some way to share my such that I can map it on my GF's computer? I know I could use FTP, but I want something more seemless and nerdy. I have high speed internet everywhere I am, so bandwidth isn't an issue (not that .m files are that big). The other option is buying a laptop and always working from there - but the stuff I do in matlab demands a lot of horsepower so a laptop that can do that is expensive. Sorry this is so long...

CLIFFS:
At several computers.
Can I set up a drive on my home computer that I can map from other computers? If yes, how?

Thanks.

 

[ktwebb]

Setup a VPN server on the machine you want to map drives of and then connect via a VPN client on any machine to you to map drives on. If your asking can you map a drive over an ordinary internet connection. Lets hope not. You should not be able to.

FTP or even a webserver would be a decent alternative. Remote desktop as well with local hard drives mapped on login is another.

 

[dmw16]

Cool, thanks. I didnt want to go with the web or ftp alternative because I want to be able to edit just one file rather than having to have multiple copies and ponder which the latest rev which has this piece of code or that piece and so on.