Thank you for the insight Dennis. I thought it was Quickbooks, but just found out it is PeachTree they are using. ughhh!
________________________________ From: Dennis Hoefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Networking Question. You might want to consider suggesting a move to the Quickbooks hosted product. Although I've not tried it on a VPN, my personal opinion, based on using Quickbooks in a small business I own, is that you won't get this to work, or at least not in any acceptable manner. Quickbooks is a resource hog in the first place and gets exponentially worse (as well as more buggy) with each version. Multi-user access (initial opening, report generation, etc.) is slow even on 100 meg Ethernet, can't imagine what it might be like pulling across a VPN on a typical internet connection, might work on a fresh install, but as the database grows I think you'll just end up with a frustrated remote user. Again, opinion only, no hands on experience trying what you describe, and for that matter, no experience with their hosted version either, so take all this with a grain of salt. Dennis ________________________________ From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Home Networking Question. Here is the scenario: 2 home users that use Quickbooks. One of the users has the Quickbooks database on their home computer, but the database needs to be accessed simultaneously by another home user in a different town. What would be the best setup so these 2 users can share the Quickbooks database and be able to use their multiuser license? Would you pump the database up to the cloud and access it that way? They cant copy the database down, work on it, and send it back and forth to each other etc.. They need it to be somewhere with 2 machines accessing it. Would a decent router with VPN access at the "host" home be good enough? If this is a viable option, what brand device would yo ulook at? Thanks for any insight. Bob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
