Well, I decided to try Sharetool. The trial copy of the software allows you to connect for 15 minutes, which is ample time to test out syncing.
I couldn't get it to work with a Bonjour Sync, not sure why. Maybe there's some sort of beacon that OF is putting out to the LAN that this software isn't sending across the WAN in the tunnel.
Notwithstanding that, I did successfully do a secure WAN disk sync via Sharetool.
I feel like I tried doing something similar a while ago by mounting AFP in an SSH tunnel, and I got a sync error.
But this time, in limited testing it did work.
Maybe everyone is already doing this successfully. But sharetool was super easy to set up (just enable upnp on your router and push a button). It would cost $30 to connect to computers together this way, but compared to Mobileme, it's a lot cheaper in the long run.
I wish Omni could maybe work with these folks to figure out what it would take to make the native omni Bonjour sync work securely across the WAN with this software.
KS
I couldn't get it to work with a Bonjour Sync, not sure why. Maybe there's some sort of beacon that OF is putting out to the LAN that this software isn't sending across the WAN in the tunnel.
Notwithstanding that, I did successfully do a secure WAN disk sync via Sharetool.
I feel like I tried doing something similar a while ago by mounting AFP in an SSH tunnel, and I got a sync error.
But this time, in limited testing it did work.
Maybe everyone is already doing this successfully. But sharetool was super easy to set up (just enable upnp on your router and push a button). It would cost $30 to connect to computers together this way, but compared to Mobileme, it's a lot cheaper in the long run.
I wish Omni could maybe work with these folks to figure out what it would take to make the native omni Bonjour sync work securely across the WAN with this software.
KS