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Posted by klunk on August 7, 2006, 12:22 pm
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> Jason wrote:
>> I'm using Quickbooks 6.0. Until recently, I had it installed on 2
>> computers on my network (one with Win98 and the other with WinME) with
>> a shared QBW file, and it worked great.
>>
>> Last week, though, I upgraded the computer with Win98 to WinXP. This
>> was a full install on a new hard drive, so it also involved a clean
>> install of Quickbooks. On this computer, I'm able to use the same QBW
>> file with no problem.
>>
>> However, now when I try to access it from the WinME computer, I get an
>> "Access is Denied" error. It states that the QBW file is open on
>> another computer... but it's not.
>>
>> FWIW, I also cannot open the sample.qbw file that came with the install
>> (it gives the same error).
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Well, it should be open on the XP machine. I'm assuming on the XP box you
> did tell QB to host multi-user on that machine. That tells a daemon to
> run and open your .QBW file. I suppose it's possible that ME sees the
> daemon has it open and won't allow access even though it is supposed to.
> Then again I more suspect the XP firewall settings. You did map the drive
> of the XP machine on the ME machine didn't you?
>
> You said you can't open the sample file. Do you mean the sample file on
> the ME machine's hard drive from the ME machine? Or do you mean the
> sample file on the XP machine from the ME machine?
>
>
OP wrote that he is using QB 6.0 -- not QB 2006. Unless he's using
Enterprise 6.0, then it's not a mult-user hosting issue. QB 6.0 (in the
U.S. anyway...) was released around 1998.
I suspect a permissions issue when the WinME machine attempts
to connect to the XP machine. A simple test would be to use Windows
Explorer on the WinME machine, browse to the QB data folder across
the network, and attempt to copy a test file into that folder. It will fail
if the WinME machine user doesn't have write access.
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