So I have someone who wants to be able to use their Quickbooks while they're away from the office. There is currently one machine Quickbooks is installed on at the office(a 1GHzish machine with XP). The easiest way I could think of to enable them to log into the machine and use Quickbooks is using Remote Desktop. Advantages of Remote Desktop being free and easy to setup. They have Roadrunner at work and DSL at home. Anyone see any problems with this idea or have any other suggestions?

4/7/2006 12:57:22 PM

if you do get it to work post how you did it
cause i tried and if you have routers in you network it makes is alot harder

4/7/2006 1:25:23 PM

http://www.realvnc.com

but i guess remote desktop is fine, too. I just like vnc because you don't have to log out of the current session on the remote host

4/7/2006 1:35:40 PM

-Change the default port from 3389 to something else.
-Make sure you setup both the client and server using NTLMv2 sessions.
-If possible, setup the client and server to use 128-bit connections.
-Educate the user about not saving their password in the RDP file
-Educate the user about the graphic lag associated with Remote Desktop.

My top 5.

4/7/2006 1:50:27 PM

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"cause i tried and if you have routers in you network it makes is alot harder"

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"http://www.realvnc.com"

I'm assuming reamvnc might make the process a little smoother??

THanks for the info! ^

4/7/2006 2:21:35 PM

[Edited on April 7, 2006 at 2:22 PM. Reason : dp]

4/7/2006 2:21:35 PM

you can use gotomypc.com ($$ pay for it) to avoid having to set it up and maintain it for them..

4/7/2006 7:48:57 PM

well i'll get paid to set it up so thats no big concern

4/7/2006 7:58:45 PM

realvnc seems to be a pretty popular program...anyone used it with success?

4/20/2006 2:08:02 AM

yeah, it's really easy., if you're going through a router, though, you'll need to forward a port or two

[Edited on April 20, 2006 at 10:46 AM. Reason : .]

4/20/2006 10:46:26 AM

so i ended up trying realvnc, but uninstalled because it costs money and it doesnt do file transfer

installed the free ultravnc which does file transfer, all is great.

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"if you do get it to work post how you did it cause i tried and if you have routers in you network it makes is alot harder"

oh, and they both worked the same. not too bad to setup. after logging into the router, i had to forward the appropriate ports (5800 and 5900 i think) to the computer you want to access...be sure to set a an internal static ip (eg 192.168.1.205) on that machine as well...and forward those ports to that ip.

thats really the only interesting part...then install the vnc "server" program on the machine you want to access, get the external ip and install the client on the other machine, use the external ip to login and BAM, remote access.

[Edited on May 18, 2006 at 12:30 PM. Reason : ]

5/18/2006 12:26:56 PM

If you don't want to open up a port on your firewall and you want to ensure that your data is secure, install Hamachi (http://www.hamachi.cc) on both computers and connect with VNC/Remote Desktop through it. It's a piece of cake to use, and doesn't require you to tweak with your firewall.

5/18/2006 1:11:40 PM