Laptop document backup

[Flibb]

Have just finished installing MS Office on my wifes new laptop (Acer travelmate 2305), its purpose in life is to replace her old desktop for doing college work on. Its connected to my little network via wifi so that she can access the printers and internet, along with her college stuff that lives on box running xp, and controlling the printers. As she now has the ability to go mobile I want her documents to live on the laptop, but to be backed up on to the file store box when she connects to the network, a it like active sync on a PDA. Basically is this possible? Does anybody use some software that does this, or is it built in to XP?

Anway the rigs are
Laptop running XP home (could upgrade to pro if it helps).
File storage box / printer server running XP pro
Netgear DG834G router/modem/switch/firewall thingy

Cheers for any advice
Flibb

[nichomach]

As long as fast user switching is disabled (if she's the only user of the laptop, there's no real need for it anyway), you could use offline files. Technically, the master copy of the files would reside on the storage box, but you'd make them available offline and have them synched whenever she plugged in, or when she shut down? Offline files is available on XP Home, and all she's need would be an account with the same username and password on the storage box.

[Moby-Dick]

I thoguht XP home didnt support offline files

http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/s...a/news_id/e/80

[Flibb]

Just tried it, home doesent support offline files, might have to install pro. Just a question of can i be bothered... Any ideas of any preferably free software that does something similar??

[Moby-Dick]

what about the my briefcase feature ?

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-255822.php

or just a simple backup batch file to run as a login script ?

[Matt1eD]

I thoguht XP home didnt support offline files

http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/s...a/news_id/e/80

Didn't know home had so little! I've lived a sheltered life in Pro.

[Gerschwin]

I have used Unison in the past - file syncroniser - http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Has version control and what not...good wee program...and FREE