Reference scene using Autodesk Maya Google Drive like websites from multiple computer

#1

Hello everyone,

My team and I are currently working on a school project using Autodesk Maya and we would like to set up a way for all of us to work from home using a reference scene which would update every time someone would save his work after he has modified something.

We have tried working with Google Drive and DropBox, however, we were quite unsuccessful. The pathing from the different computers would be not let us access the work from my other teammates. We looked all over the internet and this subject seems to be quite inexistant, I am even doubting if it’s possible.

So, is there any of you that would have a solution to our problem.

Thank you, any help is really appreciated.
Have a great day! :thumbsup:

#2

A technology exists to solve this problem. It’s called a VPN or virtual private network. Say you have a file server at one location with all of the data, each user would connect to the VPN from their remote locations. Their computer would show all of the resources from that local network where the file server is as if they were actually on that local network.

Unlike DropBox where changes get replicated from one user to the cloud and back to other users, when a change is made it shows up for everyone at the same time and without delay because everyone is actually looking at the same data on the same network (although through the VPN).