Best way to provide remote access for home office?
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@scottalanmiller we get audited yearly and randomly, it's just that topic has never come up as long as I've been here. They dig through the financials cause it's local, state and nationwide funds
but no one has come to IT and ask hey, let me dive in your QB.I guess with all this coming to light, it depends on the OP and his business. Because if it were me and I'm not having to deal with that particular side of it (audit hell), I'd just stick with online considering the desktop versions still feel circa 1990 and make sure my books are always right. No harm no foul :0)
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@krisleslie said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
we get audited yearly and randomly, it's just that topic has never come up as long as I've been her
Getting audited is nothing like doing court forensics. You can be audited with any accounting package.
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Basically I do the same thing, I "host" it for one of our clients as well. I mean yea that's a different service but same thing just a role of responsibility shift for the infrastructure. It's just QB on someone else's hardware and network. That's not really a difference for the QB Online. They just don't want to spend the # I assume for logging properly. I see the benefit of a hybrid offering.
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Yea normally for the other company they pay an auditing firm to come in and inspect. But again, even in that case, no tickets/calls to IT for a request
and your right I don't want anything else added to the ever-increasing list of stuff.! -
Have and of the FOSS accounting packages met this need? Seems like that would be the best of both worlds.
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@coliver said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
Have and of the FOSS accounting packages met this need? Seems like that would be the best of both worlds.
They did.
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How about just put screenConnect (free version for 3 hosts) on that computer and let him connect to it from the web page. Simple to setup and use.
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@360col said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
How about just put screenConnect (free version for 3 hosts) on that computer and let him connect to it from the web page. Simple to setup and use.
I had no idea that they had a free option.
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@scottalanmiller said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
@360col said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
How about just put screenConnect (free version for 3 hosts) on that computer and let him connect to it from the web page. Simple to setup and use.
I had no idea that they had a free option.
It isn’t worth it compared to something like ZeroTier IMO.
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@JaredBusch said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
It isn’t worth it compared to something like ZeroTier IMO.
Last I checked the ZT connection would be 'always on' unless you manually login to the website and disable and enable it. One vector for issues. Yes SC is permanent on but its like RDP.
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@scottalanmiller said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
@360col said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
How about just put screenConnect (free version for 3 hosts) on that computer and let him connect to it from the web page. Simple to setup and use.
I had no idea that they had a free option.
@scottalanmiller said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
@360col said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
How about just put screenConnect (free version for 3 hosts) on that computer and let him connect to it from the web page. Simple to setup and use.
I had no idea that they had a free option.
This is what I am talking about https://www.connectwise.com/software/control/free
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@360col said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
@JaredBusch said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
It isn’t worth it compared to something like ZeroTier IMO.
Last I checked the ZT connection would be 'always on' unless you manually login to the website and disable and enable it. One vector for issues. Yes SC is permanent on but its like RDP.
You can limit it to the RDP port, though.
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@scottalanmiller said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
@360col said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
@JaredBusch said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
It isn’t worth it compared to something like ZeroTier IMO.
Last I checked the ZT connection would be 'always on' unless you manually login to the website and disable and enable it. One vector for issues. Yes SC is permanent on but its like RDP.
You can limit it to the RDP port, though.
True but SC is much less work! RDP does have the full screen experience advantage.
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@360col said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
@scottalanmiller said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
@360col said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
@JaredBusch said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
It isn’t worth it compared to something like ZeroTier IMO.
Last I checked the ZT connection would be 'always on' unless you manually login to the website and disable and enable it. One vector for issues. Yes SC is permanent on but its like RDP.
You can limit it to the RDP port, though.
True but SC is much less work! RDP does have the full screen experience advantage.
So does ScreenConnect
