Or maybe something like a shared dropbox folder would work. I'm not sure how it does conflict resolution, but it's probably better than nothing and might be more user friendly than a VCS.
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Jaap Karssenberg < jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Ulf Bro <ulf....@web.de> wrote: > >> Is it possible to leave all files on a server, for example on a samba >> server in Linux, and have more people working with it at the same time? >> One person can read what another has written just like in Wikipedia? >> >> Those who have a Windows client have their Zim running there and those >> who have a Linux client use the Linux Zim. >> >> Or is that not possible? > > > Yes and no. Yes you can do it. Make sure to set the "shared notebook" > toggle in the properties, so each user uses their own cache folder. > > No it won't work well. Zim does not lock files etc. so you will get > constant conflicts when users edit the same page at the same time. > > Also you might get performance issues - never tested for this use case. > > Current recommendation for multi-user access is to sync with version > control, e.g. Bazaar. This is also available for all platforms, let's each > user change their local copy and then merge & push their changes. This way > you also can deal with tracking who changed what etc. > > To make it really user friendly you might need to configure a custom tool > with a script that does the syncing. > > Regards, > > Jaap > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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