[missing-sync-palmos-talk] MissingSync as a Networked listening daemon

[David A. Desrosiers]

> Does your FreeBSD/Linux box allow you to do a LANSync as defined 
> above?

 	Absolutely, and I've written detailed HOWTOs on how to do 
exactly this with PPP, Bluetooth, and IrDA. When my 802.11x card shows 
up in a couple of days, I'll be writing that up as well.

 	I'm just exploring my options at this point. I really dislike 
having to decouple my Palm devices from one of my boxes and go into 
the server room to physiccally cable them to the OSX machines to sync 
to the Apple hardware there. Being able to have the OSX box accept an 
incoming network sync would be ideal, as all of my other boxes 
(including Windows) have this capability.

 	I wonder why Palm removed that option from their desktop 
components. Water under the bridge at this point, I suppose. The next 
step, of course, is to get DAV talking to .Mac from the non-OSX 
machines, but that'll be a few weeks off.

> I realize that I'm kind of fuzzy on this response as the whole 
> concept of LANSync is something that I've never used. If I haven't 
> fully answered your question, please let me know.

 	Its pretty close. I'd like to poke at MissingSync a bit first, 
to see if it suits my goals, but unfortunately there is no demo 
available, so that isn't an option right now.

 	Thanks for the reply.


David A. Desrosiers
desrod at gnu-designs.com
http://gnu-designs.com