Re: Accounting software and VPN?

Yes, your concern is correct, at least AFAIK. (There might be accounting
programs that allow this).

We use a law firm accounting program (PCLaw). They absolutely do not
support connecting to the database over a WAN - in other words, I can't fire
up the program on my remote PC that's connected over VPN and access the
database on the LAN. Not only do they not support it, someone did it once
and ended up in a mess. It's not only the dropped connection issue, but the
latency of the VPN connection.

What you can do is connect to RWW and run the program on the local client
PC.


"Brian Williams" <BrianWilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6E59EAD4-B472-4E88-892A-FA8F48655A2C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello, does anyone support or allow their clients to use VPN to connect to
> accounting software i.e. QuickBooks or any other accounting packages?
>
> My concern is the dependency on two internet connections to stay up 100%
> of
> the time during each user session. If either connection drops for even a
> second during a packet transmission it could corrupt the entire accounting
> database.
>
> Is my concern accurate and correct?


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