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Not all small businesses can afford QuickBooks Hosting. But, many businesses can’t afford not to. A small business must make a solid business case to spend $50 per user on Hosted QuickBooks. Make the business case and you too can spend many years using QuickBooks Pro, Premier, Accountant or Enterprise Solutions trouble free.
If your business can’t make the case for Hosted QuickBooks, consider this unorthodox route to your own QuickBooks Multi User, Remote Access QuickBooks Server.
The process to build what you need is very straight forward. It will work for 3 user Pro or Premier. If you use a re purposed XP Pro computer
Build a new XP Pro or Win7 Pro box, virtual or physical.
Assign to a domain if it needs to be part of your domain
Download and Install per their instructions the appropriate version of Thinstuff XP/VS Terminal Server (http://www.thinstuff.com)
Install your version of QuickBooks Pro or Premier
Setup domain security or local user security
Turn off any firewall software on the server or write rules to allow rdp and vpn
Test multiuser desktop access on the local network
Setup QuickBooks users
Test multiuser QuickBooks access on the local network
You now have a multiuser RDP accessible QuickBooks server
You can use XP/VS Terminal Server to serve a desktop or TSX RemoteApp to serve only QuickBooks
To add remote access to the server, install OpenVPN or LogMeIn Hamachi VPN on the server and on client computers. You can then access QuickBooks from anywhere you have fast broadband Internet.
