quickbooks or peachtree will suck over a vpn and will eventually corrupt your database. You are better off with either a hosted solution, or setting up a cheap desktop at the location with the database and letting the second user RDP and run the app from there
Bill .Chyka, Robert wrote: > 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/> ~
