You can use what is already there Powershell | Cron |and add sshfs for windows. No real footprint in memory to speak of and is as reliable as a brick.

I've found that sshfs with a *nix file server is faster than both bonjour and homegroups and that if everything else setup right cron with proper regex is much more granular and reliable than third party products which get broken because Windows coding isn't what used to be and MS networking has always been a shambles.

It allows you to map the folder as a local drive or subfolder and once setup properly it is presistant through restarts and shutdowns as long as your network sequesters the IP of the hosting server as static.

 

I use Allway Sync. Super easy to use. Install it navigate to the source folder, Navigate to the folder you want to sync with, setup one-way or two-way sync. Setup the schedule and you're done.

As long as you can see both folders from your PC, you are in business.

Use IPConfig on both machines to check IP addresses, Make sure they are both in the same Class network 10.0.0.0 or 192.168.0.0. If you don't have a static IP Address from your ISP. you can get DDNS from Dynu.com

You don't seem to be a computer "guru". You can use Network sharing centre for your ethernet.

If one PC is on Wireless and one on Ethernet, they are both on different Class networks probably. so you'll need to do other things to be able to get them to communicate. I've never had to do that, so hopefully someone has who can help you.

 

Try again. Without standard network sharing this is the option.

I use SyncThing all the time and it works without problems. Resilio is the same technology. It's a bit tricky to set it up for the first time but when understood how it works and done it works just fine.

 

I can garantee that SyncThing works without problems for me.

 

No, sorry, I never bothered about speed as all works as expected for me on PC and smartphone/tablet. Not very fast, it takes time (not much) to sync. So I don't know. May be, there are speed limitations on your phone?

SyncTraysor is good, I use it too.

 

Have you considered buying a NAS drive?

 

May I ask, it's not clear to me if you search for a sync tool to sync folders over lan OR you can't configure shared folders in lan to use a sync tool.

 

Ok, so I'm going to write down a pair of actions I did to my machines to allow that, soon I'll prepare a pair of screenshots about that.

 

For this example I used 2 virtual machines Win7 within an isolated network.

1)
Ok so the first thing to do to avoid troubles is to assign to each PC a different static IP within Router DHCP table, likely will be 192.168.0.x or 192.168.1.x

2)
you don't need same workgroup (but it doesn't hurt to the purpose)
you don't need network discovery (but it doesn't hurt to the purpose)
you don't need to have same type of network (private or public) but there is no reason to make it public as long you want a home network


3)
create a folder you want to connect remotely on the PC 2 e.g. "samples b"

4)
go to
Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Center\Advanced sharing settings
and set whichever profile you use as follows:




5) right click on the folder to share and go to Properties->Sharing, Properties->Security and add if not already there "Everyone" group to both tabs and give permissions requested, see pics:



See next post

 

6)
to test it, go to PC 1 "Computer" and push "Map network drive" and add your "foldername" as pic:

if it connects, it's done.

Also, it can be 2 way sharing, of course, see pic.



Now, with many backup tools, you don't even have to specify a drive letter, for example I use SyncBack and profiles are like: mirror "d:\whatever" to "\\192.168.1.10\samples b", so you don't waste letters.

Hope it helps.

 

I think you should get a 2 bay NAS it will work a lot better. You can try RSync for windows but I heard it's not as good as RSync for Unix / Linux.
Add the PC's / Network devices to your host file so they know each other and unc map the drivers to sync.

 

DSynchronize
http://www.dimio.altervista.org/eng/#DSynchronize

DSynchronize is a stand-alone utility that let you periodically synchronize two or more folders on Hard Disk, Floppy Disk, LAN, USB Key, CD-DVD and FTP server.

List of main features:

° Standard and timer sync.
° RealTime sync.
° Bidirectional sync.
° Transactional sync (by the journal of NTFS).
° Selective filter (you can exclude single files or folders).
° Start as Service (the program don’t needs to log in).
° Supports Symbolic Links and Hard Links.
° Supports Junctions and Mount Points.
° Supports ACL.
° Log sent by Email.
° Backup of previous version of replaced files.
° Byte to byte compare.
° Supports multiple Jobs, each with its settings and sync paths.
° Minimum resource occupation (RAM and CPU).



(more nice wares from dimio the site)

recommend to create fake folders & files to learn option of program- no file loss

 

Yes I still use Dspeech, but never tried Dsynchronize, I'll have a look.

 

That means you have problems with your network. I doubt I can help you with this, I am a blind noob myself in this area.