Re: [Avid-L2] Off-Topic: Solution needed for (offline) SATA hard drives catalog...

Hey there,

1. Norbert M. Doerner is a really responsive, client orientated guy – just to state the facts. (+1 karma)

2. sharing databeases is a different, technical thing (tah'S been resolved afaik)

3. TeamViewer is a nice add-on, but still there is "Screensharing" over vnc:// built in the macos

4. external mounting of a shared drive is VPN stuff, not necessarily TeamViewer

5. alas, you would need the license from NeoFinder to grab content of an external storage

6. NeoFinder is it

Just by experience, I am and will not be paid for this post

Jochen "Jo" Hermann

filter Media Postproduction

Salzburg, Austria

On 12. Sep 2022, at 22:38, Tim McLaughlin <mcltim.156@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks David!

I also reached out to the creator of NeoFinder:

My company is a 5 client site for NeoFinder – we love it, thanks

We currently have the database hosted on one of our servers, which is great when we are in the office. But it is difficult and slow to access via VPN.

Is there a web-compatible way to access the NeoFinder database? Or can the database be hosted on Dropbox?

Yes, that is possible with the Dropbox Finder integration, and quite a few NeoFinder setups use this ability.

Make sure to enable the automatic sync in the NeoFinder database settings for the remote users to pick up the changes made by other users.

Best regards,

Norbert M. Doerner

ndoerner@wfs-apps.de

On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 2:44 PM David Zimmerly via groups.io <davidzimmerly=mac.com@groups.io> wrote:

We use Neofinder as well. Anyone working from home can just remote-in via TeamViewer to one of our shared, always-on workstations and access it that way (and do a thousand other things as well). Upgrading to TeamViewer Enterprise was one of the best productivity improvements we've ever made. You don't need cloud services or VPN's if you have a well-managed TeamViewer ecosystem - it does pretty much everything, and cross-platform too (Mac, Windows, Linux). Like Timbuktu used to be, only better.

David

On Sep 8, 2022, at 3:15 PM, Tim McLaughlin <mcltim.156@gmail.com> wrote:



My company has been using NeoFinder for the past five or so years to index our project and archive SATA hard drives.

It works great - launch the program, drag in the drive and presto! The hard drive gets indexed and cataloged. Now it's searchable and anyone in our office with the NeoFinder software can search all the drives to find old jobs, project files, raw media, etc.

BUT - it really only works when connected to the in-office server. VPN from home? Nope.

There is a ton of DAM software out there that can search a DAM server (or cloud server) but doesn't work for removable / external SATA hard drives.

I have a library of more than 200 SATA drives (plus backups) sitting on a shelf that I want to have a cloud-based updatable catalog, that is searchable through a web interface.

Anyone heard of something like this?

Thanks in advance.

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Tim McLaughlin
Editor