Multi office setup

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This document describes a scenario where PowerFolder connects multiple geographically dispersed locations (head, branch, home office and a employee at a customer location). The offices might or might not be connected via a VPN network. The following diagram shows the scenario in an overview.

Scenario overview

The following documentation explains the detailed configuration of each computer (Servers and Workstations).

Contents

Head office

The head office runs two servers to gain high-availably. Even when one server goes down the PowerFolder clients (workstations in main, branch and home office) continue to sync files. The friendlist is required to maintain (re-) connection to remote computers over the Internet.

Server A

  • Operating system: Redhat Linux
  • Networking mode: LAN and Internet
  • Connects to: Server B, Server C, Home office, Customer location all workstations in head office
  • Minimum friendlist: Server C
  • Runs PowerFolder web-interface

Server B

  • Operating system: Windows XP
  • Networking mode: LAN and Internet
  • Connects to: Server A, Server C, Home office, Customer location all workstations in head office
  • Minimum friendlist: Server C

Workstations

  • Operating system: Mixed (Windows and MacOS X)
  • Networking mode LAN only
  • Connection: Server A and Server B
  • Minimum friendlist: empty (Servers A and B get found by network broadcast)

Branch office

Server C

  • Operating system: Linux
  • Networking mode: LAN and Internet
  • Connection: Server A, Server C, Home office, Customer location all workstations in branch office
  • Minimum friendlist: Server A, Server B

Workstations

  • Operating system: Windows only
  • Networking mode LAN only
  • Connection: Server C
  • Minimum friendlist: empty (Server C gets found by network broadcast)

Home office

Workstation

  • Operating system: MacOS X
  • Networking mode: LAN and Internet
  • Connection: Server A, Server B and Server C
  • Minimum friendlist: Server A, Server B and Server C

Customer location

Handheld

  • Operating system: Windows ME
  • Web access to Server A
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