So, I currently have LogMeIn installed on my desktop PC, which allows my accountant to access my Quickbooks files remotely to do her payroll magic.
But, I may be out of state for the next few months. I would like to get a cheap netbook and install Quickbooks on it (monthly bookkeeping is the only thing I use the PC for), copy my QBB files over, and then install LogMeIn on THAT so that she can remotely access my netbook, instead.
Now, all the literature out there is for how awesome it is to do the reverse-- use your crappy netbook as a client device to remotely control a powerful desktop somewhere else. But will the netbook have the juice needed to HOST a LogMeIn session?
Yeah, unfortunately, the main office is a home office. And if there is a power interruption, then the PC will shut down and my accountant will not be able to log in. (This happened when I was away for 3 weeks over xmas.)
If you install the Logmein Free (not Pro) application on the new netbook and sign in using the original email address and password, your accountant can get in whenever it’s on.
FYI, in the setup of the program, there’s a cool setting where you can allow him/her to actually wake the netbook up if it’s off when she wants to work, as long as it’s online.