I own a very small construction company and we are building a new office. Me and my wife are primarily the computer users, me with my CAD drawing and her with the bookkeeping, everyone else is on-site employees.
I made the move to Mac a few years back and she's still on the PC. She's wanting a Mac now and I'm wanting to convert the office to Mac. I will have a new office manager to take over 80% of my wife's duties so she can be on-site more, so we'll end up with 3 Macs. Two powerbooks and an iMac for the office manager.
So, two laptops and one stationary mac. I want all of them to access the same files, say like Quickbooks. I want Quickbooks to be located on a seperate computer/server/something, that we all login to and access. if any of us save to it, it's updated for everyone. also, if I'm working on a drawing, I want this accessible to everyone from every computer. What is the best way to complete this? I'm also going to keep the PC just for a backup in the corner. Do I need a server to hold the majority of our companies files and use the remote computers just to access this info? Also, can I set it up so that we/I can access these files from home if need be, like an FTP type setup? Or do I need a server tied into a external storage device? Any help is appreciated.
I'm not sure what hardware I need and how to set it up, so any help is greatly appreciated. Right now my mac is setup on a home network with the PC (our office is at home currently) but it's a computer-to-computer network. I'll also have 2 or 3 printers on this new network.
I made the move to Mac a few years back and she's still on the PC. She's wanting a Mac now and I'm wanting to convert the office to Mac. I will have a new office manager to take over 80% of my wife's duties so she can be on-site more, so we'll end up with 3 Macs. Two powerbooks and an iMac for the office manager.
So, two laptops and one stationary mac. I want all of them to access the same files, say like Quickbooks. I want Quickbooks to be located on a seperate computer/server/something, that we all login to and access. if any of us save to it, it's updated for everyone. also, if I'm working on a drawing, I want this accessible to everyone from every computer. What is the best way to complete this? I'm also going to keep the PC just for a backup in the corner. Do I need a server to hold the majority of our companies files and use the remote computers just to access this info? Also, can I set it up so that we/I can access these files from home if need be, like an FTP type setup? Or do I need a server tied into a external storage device? Any help is appreciated.
I'm not sure what hardware I need and how to set it up, so any help is greatly appreciated. Right now my mac is setup on a home network with the PC (our office is at home currently) but it's a computer-to-computer network. I'll also have 2 or 3 printers on this new network.