Remote Access to Sage 100 with Printing Ability

We have 2 remote locations that need access to Sage with the ability to print.  We host the server at our corporate office.  What is the best way to give these remote sites access?  We have looked into the Cloud but that is too expensive for us.

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  • in reply to Derek Vink

    We use a terminal server for anyone outside of the office that needs to access Mas.  Sage doesn't recommend using the client/server architecture over a vpn but if you just remote into a terminal server that's at your corporate site you should be fine.  I guess it depends on how many people will be using it remotely, but this setup is pretty common I think and it works well for us.

  • in reply to stuart_1

    Stuart,  We have this set up but it is very slow.  Is there any way you have found to speed this up?  Thanks, Tracy

  • in reply to TracyB

    Other options are:

    Sage 100 ERP Standard via terminal server and a VPN

    Sage 100  ERP Advanced with a VPN

    GoToMyPC or similar software

    Each have their pluses an minuses.

  • in reply to TracyB

    I'm not sure why that would be slow.  Any RDP session is going to be dependent on the speed of the internet at both locations, so I guess if you have a lot of people logging in remotely you could be using up your bandwidth.  

    If you log in locally to the terminal server is it slow?  If it doesn't seem to be slow locally then I would have to assume that it's internet speed related...or possibly in the external firewall, but off the top of my head there's not anything that I can think of there, it should only be using port 3389.

    If it is slow locally, it's possible the hardware is not able to keep up.  Glance at some of the performance utilities in Windows and see if they are maxing out. 

  • in reply to stuart_1
    It depends what she means slow. Data entry? Data retrieval? Printing? They involve different processes thus the solution would depend on what exactly the issue is.