These Clients & Profits users share their tips on how they work remotely:

Timbuktu Pro “Our remote users use their own internet access to a machine here on our LAN via Timbuktu Pro. It works is as if the remote user is sitting in front of a system here in the office,” says Bill Raab of Larsen Design Office, Inc. “It works slick, and is probably your best bet in many instances.”

Citrix over frame relay “We have a dedicated Frame Relay connection between each location, and those users use Citrix Metaframe. It works wonderfully. Speed is not especially wonderful (we have don’t the fastest frame in the world), but works much better than when we used to mount our C&P volume the old way,” says John O'Regan of Via Marketing. “The beauty of Citrix, of course, is that we can publish it for any user, whether they dial up through a modem or connect through a cable modem or DSL.”

Citrix and Windows NT Terminal Server “We are running Citrix Metaframe on a Windows NT 4 Terminal Server. We have been running this environment for 2.5 years and have found it provides very reliable performance for eight of our PC users. It creates a “virtual desktop” from any location, giving them e-mail, MS Office, SmartPlus media buying, etc. Users can enter time and perform other C&P functions when they are out of the office,” says John Arevalo, CFO of Versant. “The speed is good. It’s almost like being in the office.”

Windows 2000 “We tried remote access a bunch of different ways and found huge success eventually. We tried a couple of variations of remote access (e.g., ARA, VPNs, etc.) which worked ok, but were a hassle to setup and were painfully slow. We finally reached remote Nirvana with Microsoft’s Windows 2000 Terminal Server running on a dual processor Dell server. It’s very fast and simple to install and maintain,” says Troy Hickerson of Strategies. “It is actually faster than working from a PC on the LAN.”