I have two users local to an office that need to scan documents then have them automatically upload to their remote Terminal Server. I can set the scanning software to save the files to a certain folder, but I would like to automatically upload them to the TS so they don't have to leave their session to upload the files. What is a good folder watcher for xp that I can use to automatically upload these files?
The server is Win 2000 and I am not sure how this is generally done on windows. I understand I can use WinSCP as a scriptable ftp client, but I don't know what tool is usually used for watching a folder for changes. Intuition says Powershell, but I don't know. My Python isn't up to snuff and I don't want to install it on their computers, but that might be a last option.
—This is what I found looking around.—
This timely thread from today shows a good utility on Debian Linux (one hyper link for new users)/questions/50127/how-to-automatically-run-a-script-when-the-contents-of-a-directory-changes-in-lin
And this thread is the closest I found on serverFault, but goes the wrong way. Some kind of Auto-downloader from an FTP Site?
(META ps Is there a way to delete tags. There is one tag for 'uploads' that should probably be 'upload'. No need for plurals.)
Best Answer
You can use WinSCP to perform this kind of automatic upload. It's normally used with SFTP or SCP but it supports plain FTP as well (your server may actually be capable of SFTP or SCP) and this can be automated with their automation scripting:
WinSCP Automation Guide
The specific command you're looking for is
keepuptodate:http://winscp.net/eng/docs/script_commands