Synchronization Between Linux, Mac & Windows

Sooner or later after you begin to have more than one computer, you will face the problem of synchronization files between them. Of course the easiest solution is to sell n-1 computers; but it is not reasonable since we must have stronger reason to have n computers at first .

Let me do the research.

My situation is as following:
I run SUSE Linux on the desktop in my lab, which is supposed to running all the time; Also I have a desktop at home running windows xp and finally my macbook laptop. My first priority is to sync between mac and linux for I usc them heavily; and second between mac and windows. Also since I use computer

References

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Sync folders between a Mac and PC?

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How to mount a Windows shared folder on your Mac

Geek to Live: Mirror files across systems with rsync

http://lifehacker.com/software/mac-os-x/how-to-access-a-macs-files-on-your-pc-247541.php

How to set up a home FTP server

http://ceitl.zanestate.edu/blog/archives/2005/10/synchronizing-files-across-computers-and-platforms/

Geek to Live: Automatically back up your hard drive

http://everythinglinux.org/rsync/

Passwordless SSH Login
http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/20021226.html

http://linuxmafia.com/%7Erick/linux-info/filesync.html

How to read and write NTFS partition in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Boot Camp in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard enables user to easily install Windows XP together with Mac OS X on a intel-based apple computer. However Mac OS X 10.5 can natively read, but not write, NTFS partition which is commonly used by Windows XP. In order to both read and write Windows partition in Mac OS, we can format Windows partition as FAT. Here is another approach to bypass this limitation.

1. Download and install MacFUSE for Mac OS X 10.5
2. Download and install NTFS-3g for Mac OS
3. Restart! If you are lucky you can try read and write your Windows' NTFS partition now.

This approach work on my Mac OS X 10.5 + 10.5.1 updates and Windows XP SP2 with NTFS partition on MacBook Pro (Model Identifier MacBookPro3,1).

Before you decide to proceed, google "read write NTFS Mac OS X leopard" to be informed of newest advancement and check for latest versions of MacFUSE and NTFS-3g.

Reference
1. MacFUSE http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
2. NTFS-3g http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
3. NTFS-3g for Mac OS http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/
4. Filesystem in Userspace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace
5. Filesystem in Userspace http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FileSystems
6. NTFS on your Mac http://www.tuaw.com/2007/11/19/ntfs-on-your-mac-two-ways/