Windows Server 2008 R2 and connecting a small business network

[Lillian Shackelford]

Hello, I am trying to get our 3 employees access to the server to allow quick books to be available to all members that need the access. Please any help in creating this sort of network using the a windows server 2008 r2 would be greatly appreciated. I would like it if the individual computers actually backed up to the server as well. Can this happen and how do I do this? Thanks for your time.

 

[popatim]

Quickbooks isn't that hard to configure/install: http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/articles/INF12570
Backups is just a matter of selecting a backup utility that can backup to a server or mapped drive and setting up the backup directory structure on the server (if your backup utility doesnt have a server backend for you to install). Windows backup and restore can do the job if your windows version is Pro or above.

 

[Lillian Shackelford]

Quickbooks isn't that hard to configure/install: http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/articles/INF12570
Backups is just a matter of selecting a backup utility that can backup to a server or mapped drive and setting up the backup directory structure on the server (if your backup utility doesnt have a server backend for you to install). Windows backup and restore can do the job if your windows version is Pro or above.

When mapping a drive from the individual computers to the server what setting within the server do I need for this to happen. I just want all 3 employees all access to all files. There doesnt need to be users with passwords just a large share file. Any help in how this works in Window 2008 Server R2 would be awesome. Very new to this.

 

[popatim]

If you have to ask foor that I suspect you shouldn't be messing with the server to begin with...
But here you go (going from memory here).
1 Make a server backup in case you mess things up if you dont already have one
2 on the server, open Explorer
3 create a new folder to be shared, perhaps QB_Docs. If you have one already that you want to use then navigate to it.
4 Rt click on it and then select properties.
5 go to the sharing tab and click the Share button
6 add the 3 users (and probably their bosses too) as users to share this with
7 click the share button on the lower right of the 'share this with?" window
8 send an email to the 3 users the link to the share from the next screen
9 you may wish to use advanced sharing to set permissions. Like I dont let many people have 'Delete' permission for example.
10 on the users computer map a drive letter to the share.

 

[Lee-m]

you should be using group policy to map the drives for you. The rest you can do via the sbs console that opens on start up. Its full of wizards to help you.

 

[Lillian Shackelford]

Thank you for all the help. I did get the quickbooks to set up and share the files that were needed to each individual within the small business. I also seem to have gotten the correct set up within the server to have all files shared and saved to the server with our multiple backups in place. Again thanks for the advice.

 

[popatim]

Glad it worked out for you and I'm even happier to hear you have multiple backups