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How to get SparkleShare working on Windows

2012-07-05T09:35:04Z

Ari:

'''Step 1:''' [https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare/downloads Download] SparkleShare, install and then exit the program (without adding any project as we need to do some 'bypassing' now).

'''''Note:''' If you've administrative privileges and can take the ''risk'' of working with Windows Registry System, uninstall and remove any traces of SparkeShare from the system registry (Run command: regedit) if it didn't work in the previous cases and do a 'fresh' re-installation. Also you don't need any Git GUI like msysGit, SparkleShare already comes with a build-in Git module and it serve our purpose pretty well here.''
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'''Step 2:''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29 Git] works in the back-end of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SparkleShare SparkleShare] through a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell SSH] tunnel and unfortunately, Windows does not come with a SSH client (unlike in Linux and Mac) Hence, we need a 3rd party client, which in our case is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuTTY PuTTY], a popular free Open Source terminal emulator. Download the Installer Package from this [http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty-0.62-installer.exe link]
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'''Step 3:''' Open PuTTYgen, click on Conversions and import a key from this address: Username/AppData/Roaming/sparkleshare (Run command to locate the required directory: %Appdata%\sparkleshare), the file would be named something like "sparkleshare.your_email_id@gmail.com.key".

After loading the key, save the private key (will be required in next step) wherever you please. Once done, you may close this window.

[[File:PuTTY keygen.png]]
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'''Step 4:''' Now open Pageant and the add the private key (that you saved in the previous step)

[[File:Pageant.png]]
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'''Step 5:''' Add a path variable name for plink.exe to 'bypass' SSH handling through PuTTY (instead of ssh-agent in Program Files\SparkleShare\msysgit\bin directory)

[[File:Envo variables.png]]
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'''Step 6:''' Configure your PuTTY.exe with a hostname: keg.hamsphire.edu and default port 22. You will get a terminal window to login, you may close this window after a while.

[[File:PuTTY config.png]]
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'''Step 7:''' Finally, you can add (i.e. cloning of repository) those project(s) from the remote server. Just type in the right host address, remote path and click on the 'Add' button. Voila, now it works!

[[File:Add project SS.png]]

How to get SparkleShare working on Windows

2012-07-05T09:31:05Z

Ari:

'''Step 1:''' [https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare/downloads Download] SparkleShare, install and then exit the program (without adding any project as we need to do some 'bypassing' now).

'''''Note:''' If you've administrative privileges and can take the ''risk'' of working with Windows Registry System, uninstall and remove any traces of SparkeShare from the system registry (Run command: regedit) if it didn't work in the previous cases and do a 'fresh' re-installation. Also you don't need any Git GUI like msysGit, SparkleShare already comes with a build-in Git module and it serve our purpose pretty well here.''
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'''Step 2:''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29 Git] works in the back-end of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SparkleShare SparkleShare] through a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell SSH] tunnel and unfortunately, Windows does not come with a SSH client (unlike in Linux and Mac) Hence, we need a 3rd party client, which in our case is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuTTY PuTTY], a popular free Open Source terminal emulator. Download the Installer Package from this [http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty-0.62-installer.exe link]
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'''Step 3:''' Open PuTTYgen, click on Conversions and import a key from this address: Username/AppData/Roaming/sparkleshare (Run command to locate the required directory: %Appdata%\sparkleshare), the file would be named something like "sparkleshare.your_email_id@gmail.com.key".

After loading the key, save the private key (will be required in next step) wherever you please. Once done, you may close this window.

[[File:PuTTY keygen.png]]
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'''Step 4:''' Now open Pageant and the add the private key (that you saved in the previous step)

[[File:Pageant.png]]
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'''Step 5:''' Add a path variable name for plink.exe to 'bypass' SSH handling through PuTTY (instead of ssh-agent in Program Files\SparkleShare\msysgit\bin directory)

[[File:Envo variables.png]]
----
'''Step 6:''' Configure your PuTTY.exe with a hostname: keg.hamsphire.edu and default port 22. You will get a terminal window to login, you may close this window after a while.

[[File:PuTTY config.png]]
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'''Step 7:''' Finally, you can add (i.e. cloning of repository) those project(s) from the remote server. Just type in the right address and remote path and Voila, it works!

[[File:Add project SS.png]]

How to get SparkleShare working on Windows

2012-07-05T09:27:14Z

Ari:

'''Step 1:''' [https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare/downloads Download] SparkleShare, install and then exit the program (without adding any project as we need to do some 'bypassing' now).

''Note:'' If you've administrative privileges and can take the ''risk'' of working with Windows Registry System, uninstall and remove any traces of SparkeShare from the system registry (Run command: regedit) if it didn't work in the previous cases and do a 'fresh' re-installation. Also you don't need any Git GUI like msysGit, SparkleShare already comes with a build-in Git module and it serve our purpose pretty well here.

'''Step 2:''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29 Git] works in the back-end of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SparkleShare SparkleShare] through a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell SSH] tunnel and unfortunately, Windows does not come with a SSH client (unlike in Linux and Mac) Hence, we need a 3rd party client, which in our case is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuTTY PuTTY], a popular free Open Source terminal emulator. Download the Installer Package from this [http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty-0.62-installer.exe link]

'''Step 3:''' Open PuTTYgen, click on Conversions and import a key from this address: Username/AppData/Roaming/sparkleshare (Run command to locate the required directory: %Appdata%\sparkleshare), the file would be named something like "sparkleshare.your_email_id@gmail.com.key".

After loading the key, save the private key (will be required in next step) wherever you please. Once done, you may close this window.

[[File:PuTTY keygen.png]]

'''Step 4:''' Now open Pageant and the add the private key (that you saved in the previous step)

[[File:Pageant.png]]

'''Step 5:''' Add a path variable name for plink.exe to 'bypass' SSH handling through PuTTY (instead of ssh-agent in Program Files\SparkleShare\msysgit\bin directory)

[[File:Envo variables.png]]

'''Step 6:''' Configure your PuTTY.exe with a hostname: keg.hamsphire.edu and default port 22. You will get a terminal window to login, you may close this window after a while.

[[File:PuTTY config.png]]

'''Step 7:''' Finally, you can add (i.e. cloning of repository) those project(s) from the remote server. Just type in the right address and remote path and Voila, it works!

[[File:Add project SS.png]]

How to get SparkleShare working on Windows

2012-07-02T23:42:00Z

Ari: Created page with "'''Step 1:''' [https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare/downloads Download] SparkleShare, install and then exit the program (without adding any project as we need to do some 'byp..."

'''Step 1:''' [https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare/downloads Download] SparkleShare, install and then exit the program (without adding any project as we need to do some 'bypassing' now).

'''Step 2:''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29 Git] works in the back-end of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SparkleShare SparkleShare] through a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell SSH] tunnel and unfortunately, Windows does not come with a SSH client (unlike in Linux and Mac) Hence, we need a 3rd party client, which in our case is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuTTY PuTTY], a popular free Open Source terminal emulator. Download the Installer Package from this [http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty-0.62-installer.exe link]

''Note:'' If you've administrative privileges and can take the ''risk'' of working with Windows Registry System, uninstall and remove any traces of SparkeShare from the system registry (Run command: regedit) and finally do a 'fresh' installation. Also you don't need any Git GUI like msysGit, SparkleShare already comes with a build-in Git module and it serve our purpose pretty well here.

'''Step 3:''' Open PuTTYgen, click on Conversions and import a key from this address: Username/AppData/Roaming/sparkleshare (Run command to locate the required directory: %Appdata%\sparkleshare), the file would be named something like "sparkleshare.your_email_id@gmail.com.key".

After loading the key, save the private key (will be required in next step) wherever you please. Finally, you may close this window.

[[File:PuTTY keygen.png]]

'''Step 4:''' Now open Pageant and the add the private key (that you saved in the previous step)

[[File:Pageant.png]]

'''Step 5:''' Add a path variable name for plink.exe to 'bypass' SSH handling through PuTTY (instead of ssh-agent in Program Files\SparkleShare\msysgit\bin directory)

[[File:Envo variables.png]]

'''Step 6:''' Configure your PuTTY.exe with a hostname: keg.hamsphire.edu and default port 22. You will get a terminal window to login, you may close this window after a while.

[[File:PuTTY config.png]]

'''Step 7:''' Finally, you can add (i.e. cloning of repository) those project(s) from the remote server. Just type in the right address and remote path and Voila, it works!

[[File:Add project SS.png]]

File:Add project SS.png

2012-07-02T22:34:52Z

Ari:

File:PuTTY config.png

2012-07-02T22:34:12Z

Ari:

Sparkleshare

2012-07-02T22:33:25Z

Ari: /* OS Specific Notes */

== Introduction ==
SVN or subversion requires downloading the entire project at least once: which is now totalling into several gigabytes of data, across a huge number of files.

This is getting unmanagable for people with slower internet connections, bandwidth caps, or even small harddisks. Our new way is to share instead of the entire project a 'production package': this is a smaller number of files (typically less than 500 Megs) that is much more managable. To syncronize this, we use Dropbox.

=== Production Package ===

The production package is a subset of the project tree, containing only the files that a particular artist needs to use. Typically the artist only edits one of the files (as is the case for the animators) but, the other files are needed to link in.
'''IMPORTANT: Do not change the directory structure unless you really know what you are doing- otherwise , you may break links to other files.'''

=== Sparkleshare ===

Sparkle share resembles dropbox: the production package is a folder/directory inside the sparkleshare folder, and changes there are automatically synced with our server; we can also provide e.g. rig updates to animators via the same mechanism transparently. When a task is complete, and the file is safely in SVN deleting the folder is all that is needed to clear space for new work.

==== Sparkleshare instructions ====
===== Installation =====

1- Download sparkleshare for your platform from [http://sparkleshare.org the sparkleshare website] and install it.

2- Sparkleshare creates a Sparkleshare folder. Within that folder is a key (something like helga's key.txt) email the key to Bassam. Once that is done you are ready to share/recieve files.

===== Usage =====

====== Production Packages ======
1- you will recieve an email notifying you of a production package, it will have a name such as 'a3s05' 'train_interior' etc. The email will have two main pieces of information: the server address and the remote path.

2- Click on the 'add hosted Project..' menu item in Sparkleshare, and click on "On My Own server"

3- fill in the Address and Remote path from step 1 and press Add.

4- the new folder should appear after a short wait. You can access it from Sparkleshare's menu or from your normal file explorer/finder/nautilus/terminal.

5- Start work on your files. Your work will be synced to the server as long as sparkleshare is running.

====== Sharing data ======
If you want to share some data you can just drop it into the production package folder and it will be automatically shared.

== OS Specific Notes ==
If a specific OS has issues, note it here:
# [[How to get SparkleShare working on Windows]]

== Alternative for the adventurous ==

Sparkleshare uses git (and ssh) behind the scenes. If you have/get these two pieces of software you can :

1- generate an ssh keypair using RSA, and send me the public key.

2- use git clone instead of sparkleshare to get the repo (I can email the uri)

3- use [git add] git commit and git push to push your changes, and git pull to get updates.

This is also the alternative for those who can't get sparkleshare to work. I can help with the linux end of things, but not for those on windows; if you can get this to work on windows, update the wiki here :)

'''On windows, Putty is the key to ssh, see: [http://devlicio.us/blogs/sergio_pereira/archive/2009/05/06/git-ssh-putty-github-unfuddle-the-kitchen-sink.aspx putty-ssh]. read up on Putty on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuTTY wikipedia page]'''

File:Envo variables.png

2012-07-02T22:31:10Z

Ari:

File:Pageant.png

2012-07-02T22:29:57Z

Ari:

File:PuTTY keygen.png

2012-07-02T22:29:04Z

Ari: