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Guys I need to do one of two things , I either need to find an online windows7 mapable drive or or I need to get 2 locations in different states using different ISP's connected with a VPN that will seamlessly allow for a single L2 domain.

Onedrive isn't mappable GDrive won't run on Win7 Seagate shut down their personal cloud Net gear no longer has ready cloud

Gonna start playing with DDNS (noip?)

Seems all of the useful P2P over IP has been discontinued, probably so ZOG has most of all of the data in the world.

Requirements - only need a few files available in real time so simultaneous multi edits are not possible.

Suggestions?

Guys I need to do one of two things , I either need to find an online windows7 mapable drive or or I need to get 2 locations in different states using different ISP's connected with a VPN that will seamlessly allow for a single L2 domain. Onedrive isn't mappable GDrive won't run on Win7 Seagate shut down their personal cloud Net gear no longer has ready cloud Gonna start playing with DDNS (noip?) Seems all of the useful P2P over IP has been discontinued, probably so ZOG has most of all of the data in the world. Requirements - only need a few files available in real time so simultaneous multi edits are not possible. Suggestions?

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You need linux nigger.

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I got what I got, if I could change it I would...

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linux is free though. You're grasping at yester year knowledge.

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I ain't a cheese nigger, cost is irrelevant.

Rclone doesn't do shit for me anyway. Gnome may but it doesn't look complete for my needs.

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Hamachi still is free for up to 5 users but I've never used it for file shares.

As long as both sites have a public IP then I would go with dynamic DNS and wire guard. It's not hard to setup but if either site uses CGNAT you are out of luck without having some sort of pivot or 3rd system or something.

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You may be out of luck - I run Win7 as well, many of the cloud providers no longer offer a compatible stub you can use to create a mappable filesystem.

Your best bet may be to set up a third machine and have something that can act as a personal shared pot or a file transfer mechanism.

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Maybe a use case for TP Omada routers? I was tinkering with them a few years ago and they are basically consumer vpn routers. You'll need to do some legwork to set them up but to the end users they'll look like they're on the same network.

Alternatively why not Dropbox, or Google drive. Surely those clients still work on Win7.

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I have some tp's here, but I was never Able to the the omada to work. I actually have to dual Wan routers at both locations .

Google drive up to .68 worked on 7, but seems GDrive has completely disabled the ability to do it.

Dropbox also disabled support on 7 for mapping.

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From what I remember about the Omada setup - you'll either need some form of dynamic DNS or a script that runs on each end to update the DNS record when the IP changes. Assuming you do not have a static IP at either location. That was the hardest part for me to get working.

Just testing it by hard coding the current external IPs it worked just fine but wasn't reliable due to non static IPs on residential Internet.

I can probably find the exact model number if you're interested but I'm sure they have newer ones out by now. They were dedicated Omada routers, it wasn't a firmware addon to a regular router. Maybe that makes a difference?

Another idea: There's DFS but that's going to need some kind of tunnel in order to work. I think there are ways to do DFS without a VPN. That might be an angle of attack.

Maybe something like triofox or filecloud? That won't give you a mapped drive though, just web front end to your on prem data.