btsync for windows domain users

[canistel]

Totally new to btsync, but I just setup my android phone to sync a few spreadsheets with my laptop. Very, very nice...

 

I administer a small windows domain, about 230 users. The users want the ability to get at their server files from home, so btsync seems like a good fit... just not sure if it's possible to run btsync on the domain server in such a way that each user can still only see and sync their own files? On the home side it's easy, but on the server side, is it possible to use btsync in such a way? (I can open up the required ports and deal with any possible firewall issues etc, it's just the btsync specific stuff I'm not sure about.)

[stallemanden]

The only way to handle this with the current functionality of BTsync, is to create a secret for all the folders, and hand those out to the relevant users.

So, user

[DOMAIN]\[uSERNAME] with home folder [uSERNAME] gets the secret, set up for \\[FILESERVER]\[uSERSHARE]\[uSERNAME]

 

It's a bit of manual task - especially as i guess your server environment is Windows based?

I would think, using a linux machine to run the "server", you could script your way to generate all shares and secrets.

 

Anyway, you should take a look at:

http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/23678-interested-in-sync-enterprise-beta/

 

There, you could give your ideas, and let the developer team know, that it's something worth looking into.

[canistel]

Thanks for the reply... Actually the Domain server (for reasons I won't get into here) is running in a VirtualBox machine on top of a linux host, I could definitely run the btsync process on the linux machine as it is actually the real backing store for the domain user files anyway.

 

So how would I script that in linux? I mean I understand scripting of course, but the actual btsync commands, would you know what to execute in a terminal to add a folder and generate a secret, then print the secret out to the terminal (or an output file)?