I am setting up a small company with a business partner. Both of us
work predominantly from our respective homes, many miles apart. We
have reached the stage where we need to store our various business
documents on a central file server accessible over the Internet. Both
of us are PC users running Windows XP.
The first key requirement is being able to access our shared files
intuitively, quickly and securely, preferably using Windows Explorer.
The second requirement is ensuring we do not both attempt to work on
the same file at once. We have already looked into hosted solutions
such as Microsoft Sharepoint, and online storage offerings from the
likes of iDrive and xDrive. All of these fulfil the first requirement,
to a greater or lesser extent, either via Web Folders or iDrive's
proprietary drive-letter mapping tool. However neither of these seem
to prevent the same file being opened by both of us simultaneously,
presumably due to the limitations of WebDAV.
I have searched fairly extensively for a hosted solution that solves
both problems but thus far I have not been successful.
My question is whether there is a service I have missed, or is
SharePoint/iDrive the best bet short of setting up VPN connections to
my own machine at home |
