Want to collaborate with associates in different location

My partners and I are looking for a remote solution to store files on as a group and be able to edit them etc. Anybody have any ideas on the best way to do this? Ideally they could be brought up and edited without have to save locally and re uploading.

Is Microsoft Sharepoint good for this type of thing?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

http://twiki.org

Big list of collaborative software here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collaborative_software

but still want to move beyond simply emailing attachments back and forth, a logical next step would be making one of the machines an FTP server.

http://www.zimbra.com/

I'm in the middle of demonstrating it in our office and so far everyone likes it. Easy as pie to install and I haven't seen any monster bugs. I've used SharePoint and think it's a good platform but we didn't use most of the features.

That you are wishing to share/edit.

I've had great sucess using Hamachi as a remote connecton to the office server. Because I mainly work on large (in MB) InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop files, the best approach was to connect, download the file to my local machine and work on it, putting it back when I'd finished. Without fail I use a file copy utility (TerraCopy) to ensure that the file has reached me intact.

Word, Excel and txt files are generally much smaller and can be opened (and even printed) via the Hamachi connection.

Don't forget though - the internet is what it is. You may have a spreadsheet or Doc stored on a remote server open for editing and your connection drops out resulting in loss of data.

An advantage of Hamachi is that it runs via their servers, so no need for you to have a dedicated server with a static IP address. Other than that, you log into your own network and can view the files in the same way as a network drive.

It's also free. https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi2/