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Office network setup help

Posted on 5/16/18 at 11:11 am
Posted by TheEnglishman
On the road to Wellville
Member since Mar 2010
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Posted on 5/16/18 at 11:11 am
I am a small contractor and hiring an admin assitant in a month.

Whats the best way (inexpensive and efficent) for us to have access to work files.

Example - Have a main computer where i share my project folders with her? have a server that both of us connect to to work on files?

I use quickbooks, estimating software, Office software, and internet email (google platform)

Posted by TheEnglishman
On the road to Wellville
Member since Mar 2010
3119 posts
Posted on 5/16/18 at 11:13 am to
Also, currently I back up my work/accounting files to a external hard drive.

I know this is not safe, so while im making this change to work with more than one computer, I'd like to start online backup.

Any suggestions there?
Posted by bluebarracuda
Member since Oct 2011
18282 posts
Posted on 5/16/18 at 11:22 am to
You can share files OTA with windows as long as it's enabled. Might be the easiest and cost effective solution.

Or you can possibly plug that external drive into your router and make it a NAS storage for both of you to access
Posted by Scream4LSU
Member since Sep 2007
991 posts
Posted on 5/16/18 at 9:35 pm to
If you have internet connectivity why not just use online services like Google or office 365 and get drive space, sharing capability, back ups and office productivity apps? Why worry with maintaining a network and attached storage. Ficus on your business and let others worry about that.
This post was edited on 5/16/18 at 9:39 pm
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