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Basically I have an issue with employees using software such as solidworks and saving to their mapped drives (on a remote server) which the link sometimes fails and the network IT guys won't look at it.
Employees with the current problem are running:
- Windows 8.1 x64
- SolidWorks
The files are around 80MB or so.
Anyone have any suggestions? I'm thinking about making them save locally to a special directory such as C:\Foo\ and that location will be synced to the location on the mapped drive (If there is such software).
Paul
Posted 2014-09-04T15:58:46.080
Reputation: 131
Create a split archive then extract the archive on the network share. – Ramhound – 2014-09-04T16:02:55.433
Do you have admin access? Would running a script on login/logout work in your scenario if you saved files to a local directory? – Touff – 2014-09-04T16:12:57.737
Sounds like you are looking for file synchronization software.
– jliv902 – 2014-09-04T19:55:27.893"Unreliable network" is redundant. Ethernet and Internet Protocol are intrinsically unreliable. – sawdust – 2014-09-05T01:59:21.747
1Just to many options here - bitorrent sync, rsync, smb shares with a fault tolerant file copy software. What have you tried so far, and how do they fall short?\ – Journeyman Geek – 2014-09-05T02:44:04.890
Love bittorrent sync. – music2myear – 2014-10-03T15:09:37.727
1However, this is about a business environment, and it really is the local IT guys' responsibility to take care of this. Also, Solidworks has issues with this. We use it at my plant and even over a decently reliable network people are always getting connection-related errors from Solidworks. – music2myear – 2014-10-03T15:10:43.753