Help accessing a file remotely

I am looking into how I can access a shared Quickbooks file remotely. I want to be able to access the info from home on my work computer. Any help would be great.

So you want to open up your work computer for access from the outside world without going through IT and having a proper VPN setup through the firewall?

You’re gonna get fired. If you can find a way to do it bypassing the firewall you will have opened up such a security hole it will probably be a matter of minutes before someone hacks your network. :slight_smile:

The proper way to do it is have a VPN setup which would make your home computer basically a part of your network at work. Then you could access any shared drive you could just as when you are sitting at work.

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So you want to open up your work computer for access from the outside world without going through IT and having a proper VPN setup through the firewall?

You’re gonna get fired. If you can find a way to do it bypassing the firewall you will have opened up such a security hole it will probably be a matter of minutes before someone hacks your network. :slight_smile:

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lol

err I read this wrong…

You want to go from home -> work

hahaha

seriously go through the proper people if you are looking at opening up your office network for vpn. If the file you want to access is on your home computer, then by all means open that up to vulnerabilities, just don’t risk the office computers.

Maybe your work has Citrix or a VPN?

It didn’t even hit me at first that a quickbooks file means it’s probably full of sensitive financial data. This just screams pink slip.

Sorry, I should have given a disclaimer before the assumptions started. This is my business and my home computer. I just got a computer at my shop and I would like to try to do this if it is easy enough to make secure.

You need to purchase a vpn router that has a built in firewall, or you can set up a firewall and an FTP server on either computer. Make sure that it has a really solid password, and only define a small range of ports that it is allowed to use.

there is sooo many ways to do this… lol VPN is very helpful you can map drives… FTP in… securely webhost it… remote desktop in…

If its just one computer it would be awfully easy to just set up an FTP server on the work computer and ftp into that machine.

If you are big company security is a huge thing… if you are small then it may not be ridiculously important for all the security measures

What OS on the computer at work? I have my router/firewall at home to forward the remote desktop port to one server at my house that I keep on 24/7. From there I can remote desktop to any computer on my network. It takes about 5 minutes to setup on the router.

Enable remote desktop connections for the computer you want to connect to. See windows help, but it’s very simple.

Then just go into the port forwarding section of your router at work and forward traffic on port 3389 to the local IP of the computer you want to connect to.

Then when you’re home just open up the remote desktop client and point it at the public IP of your router. If you don’t know your public IP you should see it somewhere in the router status page. Or just go to http://www.whatismyip.com/ from a computer at work.

Make sure you disable the guest account on the PC you’re connecting to, keep it well patched, and only use strong passwords.

just print it and take it with u

lol

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just print it and take it with u

lol

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Such a low tech solution. I bet you still have a rotary phone. :smiley:

thats what i tell my people here to do, they are too stupid for anything else.

:lol:

lol im dead serious, engineers here are morons.