Her company is looking into the possibility of expanding the shared server to 2 computers behind a router.
She says:
"Ideally what I'd like to be able to do is have half the files on one and half on the other. I know I can set up a port forwarding scheme but that would require changing things on *everybody's* pcs. What I'd prefer to do is have the router forward to one server or the other based on the path to the file that is being requested, but I don't know enough to know how feasible that is. Or what terminology to google."

Any ideas?

9/23/2008 2:02:08 PM

your friend's company is screwed.....
they need to hire someone who knows something about IT

9/23/2008 2:06:36 PM

Yeah, I don't think TWW is gonna provide free IT advice to you to provide to somebody's business. If you'd left it at "I want to do so and so" they might, but not if it's for a company. If it's for a company, the company can pay for somebody to come set something up.

9/23/2008 2:21:56 PM

For real. Thanks to our stellar economy all companies are overflowing with money and we should take advantage of that while we can.

9/23/2008 2:57:44 PM

the question barely makes sense. thus, no one will be able to provide a good answer.

9/23/2008 5:59:46 PM

FORMAT C:

9/23/2008 6:31:18 PM

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"Thanks to our stellar economy all companies are overflowing with money and we should take advantage of that while we can."

A business will pay if they need it, in good times or bad.

9/23/2008 6:33:34 PM

Quote :

"the question barely makes sense. thus, no one will be able to provide a good answer."

9/23/2008 6:50:16 PM

Is she jewish?

9/23/2008 7:01:17 PM

Quote :

""Ideally what I'd like to be able to do is have half the files on one and half on the other. I know I can set up a port forwarding scheme but that would require changing things on *everybody's* pcs. What I'd prefer to do is have the router forward to one server or the other based on the path to the file that is being requested, but I don't know enough to know how feasible that is. Or what terminology to google.""

that is just stupid

tell her to get more space for the machine that she has

9/23/2008 7:16:15 PM

why would you even want 2 file servers in this situation.

9/23/2008 8:14:39 PM

clearly for HAC guys

9/23/2008 9:11:13 PM

your friend is either ignorant or an idiot

if they decide they want to pay, PM me

9/23/2008 9:36:20 PM

You could use network shares, governed by Active Directory... then you could change the shares on AD and point them to wherever you want....

9/23/2008 10:24:44 PM

hahaha, file based routing?

arrange by penis?

9/23/2008 11:44:15 PM

I get the impression that they aren't using an AD setup

9/24/2008 8:45:40 AM

Tell her that she needs to have a javascript program made to forward all ports to 127.0.0.1 with a variable loopback datagram to keep hackers out.

Then enable simple file sharing on one of the desktops and upstream the files to a free sql database server that's offshore. This will provide more redundancy.

After she does all that, make sure you tell her to rename all the files with the suffix ID-10T, so the database can archive old work based on modification dates.

9/24/2008 9:26:35 AM

i... wow, just wow.

I'd love to see that port forwarding scheme

9/24/2008 10:50:02 AM

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"rename all the files with the suffix ID-10T"

This is the most important part.

9/24/2008 11:46:10 AM

9/24/2008 12:20:50 PM

this has got to be the dumbest idea ever.

why not just create different users for different files? it would be a lot easier.

9/24/2008 12:34:20 PM

Prospero clearly doesnt know what he's talking about.


Just tell her what I told you and you find that it's both an effective and manageable solution.


It shouldn't take you more than about 9 hours to do this, and about $40.

9/24/2008 1:14:20 PM

hahaha, i was referring to the OP, not your solution, your solution is a lot infinitely more secure

[Edited on September 24, 2008 at 3:34 PM. Reason : .]

9/24/2008 3:31:52 PM

updates?

9/25/2008 10:35:36 AM