Re: Best way to synch. Windows server directory with IFS on iSeries?

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is not clear to me.  Would the client be willing to map a IFS 
folder directly on the PCs?  Why have the intermediate server?  What is 
the advantage>:

Mark S. Waterbury wrote:
> Hi, all:
>
> One of my clients asked about this.
>
> Assuming they want to maintain a "master copy" of various PC files for 
> some of their own client-server apps. (could be written in VB, C++, or 
> anything that compiles to .exe or .dll files, or even Java .class or 
> .jar files) ...
>
> They want to "deploy" from the iSeries "master copy" to one or more 
> Windows servers, into a like-named directory structure, so that the 
> client PCs can then access this shared copy of these files via a 
> standard Windows server network "share." 
>
> What are the "best practices" for this kind of scenario?
>
> (They would prefer to use existing (or "free") software vs. recommending 
> some vendor product(s) that must be purchased and installed, etc.)
>
> NOTE: perhaps this could be triggered based on whenever file(s) in the 
> IFS are added or changed, or it could be set-up to run on a "scheduled" 
> basis (e.g. Windows scheduler), and just copy all new or changed files 
> at that time.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions.
>
> Mark
>