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How about FTP? Filezilla is very easy to set up on both the server and client side. Of course you will need to set up port forwarding/firewall rules on your router.
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FTP is insecure, so only use that if you care about speed and not security [FTP and HTTP are the fastest but have no security.]
TeamViewer might be your best bet.
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Move to a cloud based system like Google docs. Share the docs and set the limits as you see fit. This will maintain your version control and let you roll back if needed. You can also have you users only be able to comment on the doc without making changes. Easier to maintain and better cost effectivness as well.
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u could use Onedrive . . .
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You could setup ssh for sftp. Google drive is definately faster than dropbox. I like the google docs idea which ties in gdrive as well. Why not setup a vpn? Unless theres specific software on that box, you could get rid of the remote desktop situation completely and they could access files from an office file server.
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Try SFTP or VPN to get secure transfers
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I think sFTP/VPN solutions are a fine example of over-engineering in the days of cloud storage.
Other than something simple like Dropbox, Box.com has some pretty nice collaboration functionality even for the free accounts. You can create a shared folder and assign read/write access to another user via email address. We use it in the enterprise, integrated with AD but that's more than most need.
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BitTorrent Sync from ninite.com.
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Skype seems to be kind of fast but I cant speak to security
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You could keep the files synced with OneDrive and share the folder with those users allowing them to get the files as needed.
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You could also setup an account at ShareFile.com.
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Why not just create a share on the pc that gets accessed. Then map the drives to the other users who need access. Store files that gets shared with others.
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If you want a fast and simple to use way to transfer files
Why not try Files2u //www.files2u.com
You do not have to do any configuration nor create account
You can transfert up to 3GB in one shot.
And up to what I know is is secure.
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Stick with that.Typically, there is either speed or convenience. Using SCP via VPN to an internal FTP resource can be good, but will be constrained by the VPN's bandwidth. FTP does have an advantage of meeting the logging requirement.Thilak Raj B wrote:
....Now they are using teamviewer to transfer files [It has good speed]....
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If Team Viewer is working for now thats great. But do they need to share a body of files, or just what they're working on?
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A free alternate to Dropbox
//senditbetter.com/index.html
Full encryption included. A GFI product.
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I would suggest here Lepide remote admin tool[//www.lepide.com/lepide-remote-admin.html] which seems an appropriate solution in your environment. It's free and accurately manages file transferring tasks by ensuring the data security while it needs to manage remotely.
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Scott Alan Miller wrote:
FTP is insecure, so only use that if you care about speed and not security [FTP and HTTP are the fastest but have no security.]
TeamViewer might be your best bet.
How FTP is insecure? we use filezilla to transfer files, once I suggested teamviewer to my IT manager and he got mad on me saying 'do you understand ftp is secure it sends data in encrypted form and teamviewer is not secure at all'.
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Jim4232 wrote:
Move to a cloud based system like Google docs. Share the docs and set the limits as you see fit. This will maintain your version control and let you roll back if needed. You can also have you users only be able to comment on the doc without making changes. Easier to maintain and better cost effectivness as well.
Either Google drive or any other file sharing options may not be usable for me as our internet upload speed is less. So I prefer for direct file transfer method.
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What about FTP? I think FTP uses secure connection as well. How can I use FTP without configuring FTP accounts? I mean I didn't use IIS or Plesk in my server. It is just a file sharing server and same is used over remote desktop
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FTP doesn't send data in encrypted form...maybe he's referring to SFTP [SSH FTP]?Pradeep Pawar wrote:
How FTP is insecure? we use filezilla to transfer files, once I suggested teamviewer to my IT manager and he got mad on me saying 'do you understand ftp is secure it sends data in encrypted form and teamviewer is not secure at all'.
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If you want to move to the cloud to share documents, you could also set up your own cloud server with OwnCloud...
But if your not having problems with the teamviewer solution, why don't you stick with that?
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Pikkoenig wrote:
If you want to move to the cloud to share documents, you could also set up your own cloud server with OwnCloud...
But if your not having problems with the teamviewer solution, why don't you stick with that?
Actually there is a problem of traverse desktop window in teamviewer when using from RDP. So I just wanted to move out of it.
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I second the use of something like Google Drive, BitTorrent Sync, or OwnCloud [three products I have and am still using].
Of the three, BItTorrent Sync is my favorite at the moment. OwnCloud comes in a very close second. I like all 3 of them since they are automatic, and I don't have to wonder if the files / folders are syncing properly.
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if the files are MS Office Docs , you could set for a office365 solution where the files always stay in the cloud and the application to modify them are also cloud base. No sync. They would only need an internet connection ...
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Another vote for Google Drive.
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Brant Wells wrote:
I second the use of something like Google Drive, BitTorrent Sync, or OwnCloud [three products I have and am still using].
Of the three, BItTorrent Sync is my favorite at the moment. OwnCloud comes in a very close second. I like all 3 of them since they are automatic, and I don't have to wonder if the files / folders are syncing properly.
I tried Bit torent sync. But it is slower one than dropbox. It took more than 10 mins to sync a file of 9MB
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paul4170 wrote:
if the files are MS Office Docs , you could set for a office365 solution where the files always stay in the cloud and the application to modify them are also cloud base. No sync. They would only need an internet connection ...
Not like that. All type of files will be there. Example exe files, zip files, folders etc.
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google drive is very helpful
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Google Drive +1...
I like Bit Torrent Plus but, as you said, it is slower than the Google Drive...
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It depends on the size of the files, the speed of the connection, and the security requirements. There are so many ways to send / receive files.
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I tried dropbox, teamviewer, google drive and bittorent. Speed of these are as below.
Folder size: 70MB
Teamviewer: 5 mins
Dropbox: 25 mins
Bittorrent: 30 mins
Google drive: 30 mins
Internet speeds: Server- 10MBPS upload, Client- 1.5MBPS download speed.
So teamviewer won. But need alternative or separate file transfer utility.
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If you use Google drive you will not.need to transfer anything. Do the conversion and you edit the docs in the browser. Transfer time is 0. You can always download when needed but once uploaded and converted there is nothing else needed.
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Teamviewer is not free if being used for business. It is a fantastic program so please respect the license.
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FTP if security isnt a concern or SFTP if it is.
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Look at HFS for an in-office file server solution. You will need to do some basic setup for network traffic to pass-though to the outside world, but this will allow you to have an in-office file server that's tied to a website or web domain. From there you can use a FTP client FileZilla Client v3 to establish a more secure connection than just plain 'ol FTP session or RDP alone.
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I suspect the perceived slowness of DropBox has more to do with it not syncing instantly and/or the remote copy of the dropbox doing the same.
The question I ask of our own users when I start getting into these kinds of questions is, what are you trying to accomplish? If the users are manipulating a file locally and putting it back, why are they connected through remote desktop to fetch the file rather than maybe a website with access to the files that requires a login? If they're eventually putting the file back, they could either use a similar website control, but why not just work on the file on remote desktop, too?
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Thilak Raj B wrote:
I tried dropbox, teamviewer, google drive and bittorent. Speed of these are as below.
Folder size: 70MB
Teamviewer: 5 mins
Dropbox: 25 mins
Bittorrent: 30 mins
Google drive: 30 mins
Internet speeds: Server- 10MBPS upload, Client- 1.5MBPS download speed.
So teamviewer won. But need alternative or separate file transfer utility.
Kudos for benchmarking it. Were these transfers run at the default settings for bandwidth and sync frequency for each service? For example, Dropbox preferences include settings to limit upload/download bandwidth. The default upload is "limit automatically", but another option is "don't limit". There is also an ability to be selective of what folders are sync'd which could further improve performance.
OneDrive [formerly Skydrive] has a right-click menu item to force an immediate sync instead of waiting for it to happen for some unknown period of time after a file is updated. As of this writing my OneDrive says it was last updated 19 minutes ago. I did not change any files in there today, so it looks like it's running at least 20 minutes between sync attempts.
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You can try our Tonido software [//www.tonido.com]. We have compared our file sync performance with dropbox here.
Tonido is 3 to 5 times faster than dropbox within local LAN. BTSync is also another option if you just want sync.
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Google drive skydrive not bad.
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I'm kind of nervous suggesting this, as no one else has and I'm not sure why. It leads me to believe I may be missing something.
Anyhow, correct me if I'm wrong, but why not just use DFS? Or even a simple CIFS share with drive mappings on each of the client machines? When your users want to pull something down, they just move a copy to the shared folder and voila. The file is accessible.
If you wanted something that requires less user intervention, you could use DFS and setup the folders to sync to the remote machines.
This website is a good introduction to DFS if you're yet familiar with the technology: //technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782417[v=ws.10].aspx
EDIT: Oh, one other thing. If you're using Windows Server 2003 or earlier, you may want to disregard everything I've said. DFS is known to not work too well in earlier versions of Windows Server.
This article covers some of the issues in 2003 and talks about how they were repaired for 2008: //technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg690154.aspx
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I would give //box.com a look, last I checked [the other day], you have the ability to view office documents, pdf's, [Business accounts can preview in the browser audio files I believe], etc. It will version if you use the starter package or above, and give you security control and auditing over the files. I would definitely read up on the full feature list, but this is what the company I work for uses. This can possibly completely eliminate the need for the remoting in for files if you are willing to move to a cloud based solution, which means they are limited only by their internet connection, should take some of the heat off of you as far as poor connection issues.
//www.box.com/pricing/
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bravoman wrote:
BitTorrent Sync from ninite.com.
I agree, BitTorrent Sync works very well, but only in the case you need to keep two remote folders in sync. Unfortunately there is no option to download a single file/folder, you need to sync the entire folder.
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I recommend checking out Hightail [sp], you can share, sync and edit large files with anyone securely. When files are edited they will be automatically updated for the next user working with it. We also have a tracking feature so you can see when they've been opened and by whom. Hope this helps, feel free to PM me with any questions about this.
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//zend.to/ OR //owncloud.org/
Two fantastic products and free
you can implement SSL with both of them to make them more secure
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Rather than the closed-source, closed-protocol BTSync [do you really know where your files are going?] or security-hole-ridden DropBox [did you know DropBox employees can read all your files?], I would probably use this open-source system:
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Syncthing: //syncthing.net/
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Jim4232 wrote:
Move to a cloud based system like Google docs.
You can also just as easily use Microsoft's Onedrive, which will retain all formatting in documents.
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Install Ultravnc and use the file transfer utility
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Thilak Raj B wrote:
File transfer requirement: In our office everyday once or twice some 3 to 4 folders gets modified. Whenever the folders gets modified, users needs to download the same to their local PC. They will be informed by the other users about modification of the files, and then those users will download the same from server with any file transfer software [Now teamviewer].
Sounds like you really need a file server, a network share and VPN.