@syko24 said in SAMIT: Why You Can't Share QuickBooks on Google Drive for Mutiuser:

@scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: Why You Can't Share QuickBooks on Google Drive for Mutiuser:

@syko24 said in SAMIT: Why You Can't Share QuickBooks on Google Drive for Mutiuser:

There is a product out there called QBox that allows you to lock and sync the file with multiple locations. The downside is that remote users can only access the file when the local users have closed out of QuickBooks. Kind of a neat product but again not ideal when you need multiuser access all the time. The best solution in my opinion is an RDS server with the QuickBooks data file stored on the RDS for best performance.

As the QuickBooks desktop products seem to be coming closer and closer to an end, I agree that the online version is likely the best way to go. Part of the problem is that users have been using the desktop version for so long that the online version becomes very foreign to them and most want to return back to the desktop version.

https://www.coraltreetech.com/how-qbox-works

Yeah, that's not multiuser but rather "rapidly changing and coordinated single user". Could be a useful solution for some, though. You can do this with most products. NextCloud for example.

From the use case I've seen that is correct on being a single user product. I did watch the video on the link I posted and it does look like you can still do multiuser as long as the users are all on the same network. The remote user can only access once all the local users are out of the file and it has done it's sync. The file locking is automatic as well which is nice. It basically prevents the outside user from accidently overwriting your changes.

Sure, you can always bypass the sync and do local multiuser, but the humans have to manage that.

@Dashrender said in Dropbox and Box - billing issues:

So it was only verbal demands to pay for 600 users? no actual bill sent?

yeah - scummy sales BS.

Sounds like they make it scummy sales BS only after getting caught doing something far more illegal. Don't let them water it down after the fact. It's like getting caught trying to hot wire a car but convincing the cops that they weren't stealing the car, just stealing the Taco Bell food that they saw in the car... still illegal but not grand theft auto that they were actually caught attempting in the beginning.

The daemom is written in python and takes forever to rebuild the db if you restart it… I had ~1Tb in 2 millions of files. The thing is, it keeps track of the file chunks of every files… sort of joins object storage and file storage together. Very bandwith efficent, but horrible on cpu and I/O. I switched to nextcloud that lacks that feature, but it’s much faster and flexible.

I ended up with this: https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/cloud_sync

I synced a couple of folders on the NAS/OneDrive/Google Drive/Dropbox/B2.

The size difference on files on my computer was an issue with dropbox on the latest version of Win10. I used my mac to download all files and then moved the Dropbox folder inside OneDrive and got all synced. Apart from some files not being synced all looks good now. I am almost ready to cut Dropbox, part of that I already switched from yearly plan to monthly (was due for renewal on sep), just keeping it a month or two more to finalize.

With the new option of getting MS offoce on unlimited devices and concurrent sign in to 5 devices with the O365 plan ( https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Blog/You-re-about-to-get-even-more-from-your-Office-365-Home-or/ba-p/234907) along with smart sync, I guess its a great deal

@scottalanmiller said in non VPN Cloud based storage:

@Dashrender said in non VPN Cloud based storage:

@scottalanmiller said in non VPN Cloud based storage:

@Dashrender said in non VPN Cloud based storage:

@scottalanmiller said in non VPN Cloud based storage:

@Dashrender said in non VPN Cloud based storage:

Cost is an issue? Assuming you got hosted SharePoint only I think it's $4/u/m...

Tiny capacity, though.

1 TB per user?

That's ODfB. The Sharepoint storage proper is like 100MB.

OMG, that's near useless!

It's only for documents. Goes a long way when used as intended.

Used as intended? That's a joke, right? Storing large PDFs should be a part of the intention. DWG files can be huge.

@bigbear said in Dropbox Smart Sync:

@dbeato I have thought a lot about nextcloud. They didnt seem to have any support plans for the ~10 to 15 user size companies so I was hesitant to go with it.

Or, you could ask certain people in the community that promote it all the time to see what they offer.

Yes, I have. It was talked about on Security Now a few years ago.

It allows TNO (Trust No One) on cloud storage . You control the keys for encryption. of course, if you don't have the keys, the data is useless.

I wouldn't say "blazing", but it got alot faster since I moved away from Bell 😛 Right now I am on a 100/10 connection.

@nadnerB No help on that setting. I'm already set to "No limit"

This machine is part of our parent company's domain which I am not administering. What I got from their team is it might be due to SEP policies! Even though I disabled SEP on my machine, it still is the same issue. I am member of local admin group as well.

Thanks for the follow up.

Pretty cool, that is a really handy service. We use ownCloud here and love it. Being able to integrate other services so that you have a single pane of glass but multiple storage choices is really nice.

Pretty much they were just overpriced before. They just adjusted here. It is a good price but nothing amazing.

@g.jacobse said:

@ajstringham said:

I agree with what he said. I've never heard of it. I've already got Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and that's just installed. I also have Box, Amazon and a couple others. I'm set. Lol

I agree; I have Google Drive, Dropbox, Box and another I can't remember, in the office I have Onedrive and another Dropbox... I also carry 6 different USB drives - although three of them were to replace the other three, and I've since plan to reduce even more with a multi-boot USB.

@scottalanmiller said:

The primary feature of Tresorit is client-side encryption. A nice feature, but not too big of a deal for SMB customers, I don't think.

https://tresorit.com/

Although the REALLY BIG feature is that all data is stored only in the EU, not in the US. That's a big feature that I am surprised that they don't advertise more clearly.

Uhm - yea,.. that would be a big issue to disclose.. the US market could easily be cut off if someone barked loud enough. While it was a "SPICEWORKS" promo.. think I too will be passing.

No I think it is meant as a huge plus. More protection for companies.

That's a good feature to have. Surprised that they didn't have it before.