atw: Netdrive?




Netdrive is a free utility from Novell that lets you map remote folders
(e.g. over the Internet or a network connection) to a drive letter in
Windows Explorer:

   "...Then you access and work with your files as with any network drive.
   NetDrive transparently downloads and uploads files to a temporary
   directory on your workstation, similar to any mapped network drive. When
   you log out of NetDrive, it completes any outstanding uploads and
   deletes the files in the temporary directory."

For example, you could map your storage space from your ISP account to a W;
drive, which you could then access from a home machine, laptop, and
possibly multiple client sites. Under the covers it actually uses either
FTP or a more secure protocol called WebDAV to transfer files back and
forth, but that's invisible to the user--you just double-click,
drag-and-drop, etc. Sounds like it could be useful for travelling TWs.

A USB drive would be better in many cases (faster; doesn't need a working
net connection) but Netdrive is free and seems like it could be useful in
situations where your thumb drive is lost/stolen/broken/full/in your other
trousers.

Has anyone used it? Are there any security or other issues?

Cheers
---
Stuart Burnfield
Information Developer
Australian Programming Centre

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