Hi, Does anyone have iFolder server going on Centos 5? I'd like to secure and try it from another nonlocal machine, and was wondering any problems? Thanks. Dave.
I have tried to get it going on CENTOS 4.X and have had heaps of problems that nobody seems to be able to figure out.
On 5/8/07, Dave dmehler26@woh.rr.com wrote:
Hi, Does anyone have iFolder server going on Centos 5? I'd like to secure and try it from another nonlocal machine, and was wondering any problems? Thanks. Dave.
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I tried too, but had no success either. There's no help that I could find.
I tried to follow the Gentoo howto but it didn't work.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Tim Uckun Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 8:33 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] iFolder server on Centos 5
I have tried to get it going on CENTOS 4.X and have had heaps of problems that nobody seems to be able to figure out.
On 5/8/07, Dave dmehler26@woh.rr.com wrote:
Hi, Does anyone have iFolder server going on Centos 5? I'd like to secure and try it from another nonlocal machine, and was wondering any
problems?
Thanks. Dave.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Hi, Thanks, well so much for that. I don't really have time right now for in depth trouble shooting, maybe in a month or so i'll get back to this, but for right now does anyone know a package or suite of packages that perform an equivalent function to iFolder? Thanks. Dave.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Dukes" tdukes@sc.rr.com To: "'CentOS mailing list'" centos@centos.org Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 8:38 PM Subject: RE: [CentOS] iFolder server on Centos 5
I tried too, but had no success either. There's no help that I could find.
I tried to follow the Gentoo howto but it didn't work.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Tim Uckun Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 8:33 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] iFolder server on Centos 5
I have tried to get it going on CENTOS 4.X and have had heaps of problems that nobody seems to be able to figure out.
On 5/8/07, Dave dmehler26@woh.rr.com wrote:
Hi, Does anyone have iFolder server going on Centos 5? I'd like to secure and try it from another nonlocal machine, and was wondering any
problems?
Thanks. Dave.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On 5/8/07, Dave dmehler26@woh.rr.com wrote:
Hi, Thanks, well so much for that. I don't really have time right now for in depth trouble shooting, maybe in a month or so i'll get back to this, but for right now does anyone know a package or suite of packages that perform an equivalent function to iFolder? Thanks. Dave.
Powerfolder does pretty much the same thing. http://www.powerfolder.com/
It's written in java so it works out of the box on windows, linux and mac. It also supports bittorrent as transfers.
Doesn't have the exact same feature set but it's similar and it works today.
You could probably set something up with subversion and tortoise that works similarly. I suppose rsync + a scheduled task might accomplish something similar as well.
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 01:21 -0400, Dave wrote:
Hi, Thanks, well so much for that. I don't really have time right now for in depth trouble shooting, maybe in a month or so i'll get back to this, but for right now does anyone know a package or suite of packages that perform an equivalent function to iFolder? Thanks. Dave.
I bumped into these webpages. Maybe they are helpful:
http://www.ifolder.com/index.php/HowTo:Building_iFolder_Enterprise_Server_on... http://www.ifolder.com/index.php/HowTo:Configure_iFolder_Enterprise_Server_o...
The latest iFolder and dependency SRPMs for CentOS that I could find (going top to bottom in the releases directory) are located at:
http://forgeftp.novell.com/ifolder/server/3.5/20060621-0346/linux/
Seems Novell stopped creating CentOS (S)RPMs quite a while ago. I have no idea how much work it is to update the latest available CentOS SRPM with the latest iFolder release. Or adopt the latest 3.6 SRPMs for SLES to build/work ok on CentOS 4.x & 5.x.
Latest 3.6 iFolder + deps SRPMs for SLES can be found at: http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/srinidhi/openSUSE_10.2/src/
Hope this helps.
Regards, Patrick
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Dukes" tdukes@sc.rr.com To: "'CentOS mailing list'" centos@centos.org Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 8:38 PM Subject: RE: [CentOS] iFolder server on Centos 5
I tried too, but had no success either. There's no help that I could find.
I tried to follow the Gentoo howto but it didn't work.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Tim Uckun Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 8:33 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] iFolder server on Centos 5
I have tried to get it going on CENTOS 4.X and have had heaps of problems that nobody seems to be able to figure out.
On 5/8/07, Dave dmehler26@woh.rr.com wrote:
Hi, Does anyone have iFolder server going on Centos 5? I'd like to secure and try it from another nonlocal machine, and was wondering any
problems?
Thanks. Dave.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Were you able to get this working? After seeing your email about this, it looks like something I could use.
Matt
On 5/8/07, Dave dmehler26@woh.rr.com wrote:
Hi, Thanks, well so much for that. I don't really have time right now for in depth trouble shooting, maybe in a month or so i'll get back to this, but for right now does anyone know a package or suite of packages that perform an equivalent function to iFolder? Thanks. Dave.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Dukes" tdukes@sc.rr.com To: "'CentOS mailing list'" centos@centos.org Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 8:38 PM Subject: RE: [CentOS] iFolder server on Centos 5
I tried too, but had no success either. There's no help that I could find.
I tried to follow the Gentoo howto but it didn't work.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Tim Uckun Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 8:33 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] iFolder server on Centos 5
I have tried to get it going on CENTOS 4.X and have had heaps of problems that nobody seems to be able to figure out.
On 5/8/07, Dave dmehler26@woh.rr.com wrote:
Hi, Does anyone have iFolder server going on Centos 5? I'd like to secure and try it from another nonlocal machine, and was wondering any
problems?
Thanks. Dave.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On 5/10/07, Matt Shields mattboston@gmail.com wrote:
Were you able to get this working? After seeing your email about this, it looks like something I could use.
As I said I got it kind of working. Some clients are able to log in, some are not. Some log files nothing but spaces other's don't really say anything useful. They give microsoft type of error messages like "object reference not set" or some such crap.
My advice is not to bother it's just not worth your headache. I am stuck with my install because I have some users on it they have lots of data but I curse the day I chose to install this thing.
Furthermore there is no community to ask for help. The developers don't answer questions, if you are really really lucky they will ask you for some logs or config files and then completely ignore you after that.
Maybe one day when 3.6 finally becomes stable it will be worth looking at but that project is at least a year behind now. They promised an interim 3.5 stable release and that never materialized either, they rushed out a "developer release" but it's buggy as hell.
Take my advice stay far away from this project. Use rsync, use unison, use powerfolders, use scp, use subversion use anything else but this thing.
you have been warned. I have spent countless hours trying to get this thing working properly and it never had learn from my hard earned experience.
Ok, thanks. After you mentioned it, I checked out the website and it looked very promising. But I guess I'll stay away. Thanks
Matt
On 5/10/07, Tim Uckun timuckun@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/10/07, Matt Shields mattboston@gmail.com wrote:
Were you able to get this working? After seeing your email about this, it looks like something I could use.
As I said I got it kind of working. Some clients are able to log in, some are not. Some log files nothing but spaces other's don't really say anything useful. They give microsoft type of error messages like "object reference not set" or some such crap.
My advice is not to bother it's just not worth your headache. I am stuck with my install because I have some users on it they have lots of data but I curse the day I chose to install this thing.
Furthermore there is no community to ask for help. The developers don't answer questions, if you are really really lucky they will ask you for some logs or config files and then completely ignore you after that.
Maybe one day when 3.6 finally becomes stable it will be worth looking at but that project is at least a year behind now. They promised an interim 3.5 stable release and that never materialized either, they rushed out a "developer release" but it's buggy as hell.
Take my advice stay far away from this project. Use rsync, use unison, use powerfolders, use scp, use subversion use anything else but this thing.
you have been warned. I have spent countless hours trying to get this thing working properly and it never had learn from my hard earned experience. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Tim Uckun wrote:
of data but I curse the day I chose to install this thing.
Furthermore there is no community to ask for help. The developers don't answer questions, if you are really really lucky they will ask you for some logs or config files and then completely ignore you after that.
<warning -- possible offensive, FOSS political content>
... shocking: the Novell and Mono folks are not accessible? Send up signal flares and let's find them. ;)
Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas ... but the dog still gets a knife in the back in the last act.
-- Russ Herrold
I was just browsing the ifolder web site and I stumbled on this link http://live.gnome.org/Banter/
Apparently novell is working on a new collaboration suite written in C#.
I don't know if (or how many) ifolder devs were pulled for that project but it does mean less resources available for other C# projects at novell.
I don't know why they continue on this path. Clearly C#/mono is not suitable for rapid development. They were supposed to release a stable 3.5 server over a year ago and they sill don't have one. They hinted at a stable 3.6 release for brainshare a couple of months ago and it's not even in beta. Nobody at the ifolder developers list will even attempt at hazarding a guess as to when 3.6 will be done. If you ask all you get is silence.
You know it would not be too hard to slap together something like ifolders using subversion, you could even get locking for free. Only if I had more time....
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