Thank you all for the suggestions.

This is for students in Guatemala. I don't know that it is all one school, as there are kids and extended family of various ages.

I am now leaning toward installing Fedora on these machines. I just switched to Spanish; Castilian, Guatemala to test here in my office and it looks easy.

So, Fedora 27, LibreOffice, VLC, and GIMP and we should be good.

I have suggested to my local contact to drop off a laptop and I will install everything and show it to her.

Any other words of wisdom?

I am looking for a post from somewhere, sometime that I can't remember about a guy who created intentionally bad hold music for pushy sales calls. The jist of it was the music was spectacularly bad, and then was doctored to be nearly unbearable to see how long the caller would stay on hold in hopes of making a sale. Then the system would hang up.

I can't for the life of me remember where I heard this. Does anyone remember this?

I have heard good things about Karl Palachuk's books.

Managed Services in a Month is one of them.

@jaredbusch Thanks mate. Client called me in a panic because he was "cleaning up," saw the warning regarding removing an IMAP account, thought "what could possibly go wrong?" and removed it anyway.

Am headed there now and will follow dbeato's advice regarding Stellar.

@scottalanmiller said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

Welcome @Scott

Well thanks! It has occurred to me that @scottalanmiller is rather popular and if my @Scott name causes chaos I am happy to change it. I was just so excited it wasn't taken.

I have a client whose dad helps him with the books in his home office once a week. They would like to set up remote access for the one day a week he does this so dad does not have to drive 2-3 hours.

Log Me In and TeamViewer seem a little pricey to them for something used a few hours once a week.

Are there any recommended similar remote access options that do not require replacing routers, static IPs and the like?

Thanks.

I used to watch this show too!

Had a TI 99/4A and an IBM PCjr.

Other kids on the block had Commodore 64, VIC-20, Timex Sinclair 1000.

@smartkid808 I too had trouble with MC on Linux because I am not a regular Linux user.

scottalanmiller has helped me a great deal. The man has the patience of a saint.

Thank you all.

Turns out for some reason in Remote Desktop I need to use "user" as username and not the account name.

This is not the case on my network, where the actual user name is used.