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Stupid question on {cloud} netwoking.

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Gilligan:
There are ways around the "shared" session.

Virtualization, Terminal Services.  that sort of thing.

Teamviewer is a good solution to firewall issues... though figuring out how to set up your router really is a trivial matter.

ZooCity:
Ok, I basically understand what a lan is. We have wireless routers at both locations, I can setup with those right? The rest is gliding right over my head.  We have two mac workstations and a pc for the pos out front.  The pc may be getting replaced by a third mac. I would need to make a software choice there ands I would choose mac.  Macs kinda auto network and it sounds like you all are pc guys but could I simply make one mac the host?

squeegee:
This would be a good place to start.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apple-remote-desktop/id409907375?mt=12

The only hitch to my idea is you'd need an extra machine (used MAC?), one more than you have already (so you have one dedicated to the remote user in the retail shop most of the time).  The idea behind this is to allow all of the shop management software transactions to occur on the store's lan instead of over the internet.  The router issue I mentioned may not be an issue for MAC, even if it is, it is not hard to figure out.

To manage art files you could use ftp; save work to ftp at retail shop, download at shop to print/edit whatever at the shop.  My cheapo Dlink NAS (network attached storage device) has integrated ftp.  The NAS is like a computer (but no user interface) on the LAN to centrally distribute/store files, but can function as an ftp at the same time if you get one so equipped.  We used to transfer files this way to allow remote users to download, edit and upload when finished back to the shop.
Who know's, maybe apple's RD will allow you to copy and paste files from host machine to remote machine, then you wouldn't need an ftp.  In Windows you can do this but it only works effectively on very small files.

Basically what I'm saying is a work around to having a full scale server set up or a VPN.

Gilligan:
Yeah, ideally it sounds like you want a VPN.  This would allow you to "virtually" be on the same LAN.  The two routers would have an encrypted tunnel between them that all "local" traffic would traverse.  You could then print, browse shared folders everything like you were in the same office.

But I'm not sure that solves your software issue unless they have networking capabilities already.

ZooCity:
I have a set of 3 cloud based apps I've found for screen printing shop mgmt.  Web-based seems like the easiest solution overall.  I'll try and post a decent review of the three here. 

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