(Solved) Needing Help With Connecting Two PC's To The Same Drive Over The Net

[Kaliosys45]

Hey guys,

Sorry the topic is a bit vague and I'm not quite sure where to ask this question so hopefully someone can point us in the right direction.

I have a partner who lives in another state. We are in the process of making our second game and want a more streamlined way of accessing files that we work on.

What we want to do is have my partners software see my drives as his directory so he can load the files and paths from my system, this way he doesn't have to install them. Any changes I make or that he makes happen as if they are all on my main system here.

I do something like this over network here at the house with Symbolic Links. I have a second workstation that I didn't install anything but the base software on, then it's directories are pointed to my main systems drives and it accesses them as if it's a local drive in the system.

Is there a way to do this over the net? I have extra systems if I have to make a file server to accomplish this but I just need to know which direction I need to go in, in order to achieve something like this.

Any help is greatly appreciated and thank you for your time in advance.

[Eigenvektor]

If you are working on a game, why aren't you using source code management like Git?

 

Working on source code without revisions sounds like a nightmare. In what situation do you need changes made by someone else in real-time?

 

Though what you want sounds like a case for something like ownCloud/NextCloud. Given network bandwidth limitations it won't be real-time, but fairly quick.

[Kaliosys45]

Not a game of such stature, VN's and RRPG games. We're just a two person crew doing this and looking for the quality of life improvement so when I am adding content such as new models to our build, I don't have to send them to him and have him put them on his local machine every time. OwnCloud and NextCloud are good solutions, looking into the cloud storage stuff, I had no clue you could set them as hard drives on your local system. This solves our problem, thank you.

[LIGISTX]

Set up a WireGuard VPN and once your partner is VPNed into your network, they would be able to mount your local shares as if they were locally on your LAN… this also means they will be within your LAN, so from a network security perspective I hope you trust them. It would be the same as if they were plugged in directly or on your wifi.