Online Accounting

[Rob Peterson]

Is there a way to have Quicken or QBooks loaded on the web and have user
enter transactions remotely? We have a long distance client and both want
access to the same company file. We don't have a static IP number so remote
access is out?
Any other ideas?
thanks.

[Allan Martin]

Intuit the maker of Quickbooks has an online version of their software. Not
quite sure what having a static IP address has to do with using remote
software solutions like PCAnywhere or GoTo MyPC.


"Rob Peterson" <robp@owc.net> wrote in message
news:pkL2b.37294$A%3.482232@ord-read.news.verio.net... Is there a way to have Quicken or QBooks loaded on the web and have user enter transactions remotely? We have a long distance client and both want access to the same company file. We don't have a static IP number so
remote access is out? Any other ideas? thanks.

[Jim Turner]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:49:41 GMT, "Rob Peterson" <robp@owc.net> wrote:
Is there a way to have Quicken or QBooks loaded on the web and have userenter transactions remotely? We have a long distance client and both wantaccess to the same company file. We don't have a static IP number so remoteaccess is out?Any other ideas?thanks.

Static IP is not totally necessary. Look at something like
http://dyndns.org to handle the ip changes, and use remote desktop,
terminal server, pcanywhere or gotomypc to remotely access one
computer from the other (assuming broadband connections). Works just
fine.

[Bud Recor]

Check out www.mangosoft.com , it's like an online hard drive. With that you
could 'share' the data file if you want to retain using the desktop software
at both locations.

"Rob Peterson" <robp@owc.net> wrote in message
news:pkL2b.37294$A%3.482232@ord-read.news.verio.net... Is there a way to have Quicken or QBooks loaded on the web and have user enter transactions remotely? We have a long distance client and both want access to the same company file. We don't have a static IP number so
remote access is out? Any other ideas? thanks.

[John Blaustein]

Jim,

That sounds like good advice. Thank you! I did not know the details of VNC
that you mentioned.

--

John


"Jim Turner" <itwiz@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:49e74d4952a80a967bad4db75057b915@news.teranews.com...
Security for VNC over the internet is a potential problem. What is passed is not encrypted, so potentially your password (there is only a simple password protection, not even username) can either be sniffed or maybe "guessed". VNC is designed to be used over a secure channel, either a local network or a VPN or SSL tunnel. I like it, it is free, it does what it does very well, but wouldn't use it bare over the internet.

[Jim Turner]

Most of it is on the original VNC website. They didn't design it for
security. There are a couple of projects to secure it, but I think
they are all in beta. There is also a way to use SSL to secure it to a
linux/unix server, but it would require a different approach for
windows.

Jim

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:52:47 -0700, "John Blaustein"
<nomail@nomail.com> wrote:
Jim,That sounds like good advice. Thank you! I did not know the details of VNCthat you mentioned.