Using Program on another Computers Hard Drive

Judy Means · March 17, 2011, 11:47:37 AM

I have our Payroll program (Quickbooks) set up on my computer alone. It is not on the server. Is there a way for another computer on the network to access Quickbooks also or would it have to be out on the network for that to happen?

Thanks

Judy

Bloody Jack Kidd · March 17, 2011, 11:59:41 AM

Quickbooks likely is not designed to function that way and needs to be installed on the other computer (licensing restrictions apply here), the actual payroll data CAN be located centrally and accessed from multiple machines though.

Gene Foraker · March 17, 2011, 12:03:36 PM

Remote Desktop or maybe logmein? It would be as though the other person were typing on your desktop.

You could not be operating on the PC at the same time, of course. May as well let them sit at your PC.

Jeff Zylstra · March 17, 2011, 12:09:49 PM

Quote from: Rick Chisholm on March 17, 2011, 11:59:41 AM
Quickbooks likely is not designed to function that way and needs to be installed on the other computer (licensing restrictions apply here), the actual payroll data CAN be located centrally and accessed from multiple machines though.

I'm pretty sure that you can purchase multi-user licenses for Quickbooks, and that may be a good solution since simultaneous access of the data files will probably cause data corruption. Better to be safe than sorry!

Jan Regnier · March 17, 2011, 12:41:28 PM

Quote from: Gene Foraker on March 17, 2011, 12:03:36 PM
Remote Desktop or maybe logmein? It would be as though the other person were typing on your desktop.

You could not be operating on the PC at the same time, of course. May as well let them sit at your PC.

I was thinking along the same lines as Gene...they would need access to your PC (remotely) since that is where the program resides.

Judy Means · March 17, 2011, 12:51:29 PM

Thanks everyone for the quick reply. That gives me some choices. I just need access to print out a lot of reports with no changes to the numbers at all. I may temporarily install the program on this new computer, do a restore, and then uninstall it when I'm done. I could be at this for a week or so.

Hummmmm.....

Orlando Alonzo · March 17, 2011, 12:52:06 PM

Jeff is correct there is a multi user version of QB.

Hans Manhave · March 17, 2011, 12:57:54 PM

Multi-user of QB (we have a five user version) is also probably different than having two single user versions installed.

With Quicken (as opposed to QuickBooks), our experience is that one can have multiple single user Quicken installations, but the data gets locked per data file when one station opens it. This is good, but I wish they made a multi-user Quicken version too.