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AEngineer:
I've been a very happy user of Foldershare for quite a while.  I sync about 30G of data between five PCs (and formerly a Mac) almost effortlessly.  Its big limitation is that (thanks to MS buying it), it doesn't do linux.

Now I'm thinking of trying to incorporate a linux box into the mix.  I'm looking for something that will do the same thing as Foldershare.  I'd appreciate suggestions.  Here's what my research so far seems to tell me:

 - rsync and its offspring might do it but - they seem to be 2-box only and probably hard for a novice to configure

 - Powerfolder looks like a candidate, but I found their documentation tough to evaluate - any users here?

- I could probably do a kluge and run a VM with windows on the linux box and thus continue foldershare, but that does not appeal at all.

Thanks

Jammo the OrganizedFellow:
Yeah, I'm looking for a way to sync files tween two computers also.
I found FolderShare via http://lifehacker.com/software/downloads/download-of-the-day-foldershare-137571.php

I also don't want to use it due to the MS ownership now.
Hopefully, some other DonationCoders come to our rescue.

sri:
These might be useful to you:

http://www.leafnetworks.net/

http://www.purplenova.com/index.html

http://www.dekoh.com/index.jsp

AEngineer:
The first link didn't work and the other two are essentially about selective sharing of local items with others.  My sense of them was that they're about allowing others to access your files.  My interest is in synchronizing large numbers of files on multiple machines, something Foldershare does extremely well, but not extending into the *nix world.

PhilB66:
Unison file synchronization

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