I've always taken my main notebook around with me, but now I'd like to have my NB200 on trips. So, now I need to synchronize data between the two. Not a problem with all my internet based data like email, Evernote, etc, but I do have lots of stuff in My Documents. Syncing is the best way to avoid the headache of keeping things organized.
Synctoy 2.0 from Microsoft seems to be a decent solution.
My Wifi is unsecured (bogus router from Telefonica), so I didn't want an unsecured file share going out to all my neighbors. Fortunately, on Vista you can specify Password Protected File sharing. This way, since my main laptop is password secured, you have to know that password and login to get at the shared files.
So, on my main machine, I shared My Documents. Then on the NB200, ran SyncToy 2.0 and set up a Folder pair between the two machines to sync My Documents between the two. Works like a charm.
Don't share anything on the NB200, so you won't be exposed at Wifi hotspots, also, you might turn off all exceptions in the Windows Firewall as well when out and about.
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