synchronization for many notebooks

[Dan Letkeman]

Hello,

I'm wondering if Rsync could be used for the following?

500 Notebooks, all users have a local directory where they work on
files, but they also use other workstations on the network and access
there files from the server.

So what I would like to do is have rsync running on the notebooks, but
syncing the files according to date.  Also, is there a way for the
notebook to "monitor" the local directory so when they save a file on
there notebook that it gets sent immediately to the mapped drive on
the server?

Thanks,
Dan.