+1 Maintaining 3 home remote vpn tunnels sounds like a nightmare. Sync the dropbox to a local machine at the home office...back that up.
-----Original Message----- From: Clark, Tommy R [mailto:tommy.r.cl...@saic.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 3:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: small office and branches setup Despite not wanting a cloud solution, a business Dropbox account, or something similar, may provide better performance than hosting a local server. It also eliminates maintenance hassles. -----Original Message----- From: bounce-9564627-8239...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-9564627-8239...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of jesse-r...@wi.rr.com Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 2:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: small office and branches setup I'm always involved in med/large sized customers so I'm looking for input here. I have a new client that has 4 total offices across the US. Each of the 4 offices are basically a home-office with only 1 current user (potential to grow to 5-10 users at each office over the next couple years). The owner decided he would like a server at the main office location, mainly for the purpose of storing/sharing files that would be accessible between himself and users at the other 3 remote offices. Currently they send emails with attachments to share these files, which leads to versions/copies of files, and no central location for file storage (something he really wants) and onsite backups. He wants the files and data on a single server/device instead. I was imagining putting a single Dell/HP entry level file server on his site, running Windows 2008 R2 and potentially just leaving it in a Workgroup (I don't know if the user machines are Home/Pro editions of Windows yet) and sharing out the files/folders he wants. I'd have to setup a VPN tunnel between his main office and each of the 3 remote offices so the remote users had access to the server at his site. I've had good success with Mikrotik routers for this in the past with smaller sized customers. I don't think he really wants a cloud based solution so I'm just looking for input on small office file-sharing and easist ways to make it happen. I'm rusty on this, since I'm used to supporting 1000+ users typically. Input appreciated. J -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
