[fw-general] PHP + IIS + SMB + Zend Studios?

[Henry Umansky]

Hello all,
This is not a question regarding ZF per se, I just want to know how  
others would handle the same situation. Currently I was given a task  
to develop a PHP ZF app on a Windows Server 2k8 running IIS7. Problem  
is that I'm using Mac Leopard and connecting to windows using SMB  
through the Zend Studios 6.1 IDE. This process is painfully slow,  
every key stroke takes about 3-5 seconds to register and connecting to  
SMB before I open ZS is an extra step I would like to cut out. I've  
isolated the problem to Zend Studios, since other text editors like  
TextWrangler or Komodo Edit are fine. So my question is this, how are  
others connecting to windows servers and developing PHP/ZF  
applications and what IDEs do they use and what connection protocol  
does your organization allow?

Also, on a side note, does anyone know of a tool that will allow me to  
easily package and migrate my application from development server --->  
QA server ----> finally the two load balanced production server? The  
old method of connecting to all three via SMB and using the drag and  
drop method is getting old and I want to minimize downtime. Right now  
I can do each front-end independently, but there is about a 5-10  
second lag until our load balancer detects the 500 error, and sends  
traffic to the other front-end, when I copy the folders over. I guess  
it ultimately comes down to, is there an rsync equivalent to  windows  
if so, what is it?

Thank you,
Henry