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Posted by Tom Del Rosso on January 29, 2008, 12:50 pm
Please log in for more thread options > Tom Del Rosso wrote:
>> The Quickbooks database server apparently needs an admin to stay
>> logged in while it runs. I'm wondering if you can make it run as a
>> service or in a startup script. The fact that it also closes when
>> you close it instead of minimizing to the tray makes it look pretty
>> lame.
>>
>> It seems to be designed to search for QBW files on a whole drive
>> instead of simply remembering the folder you select. Are users
>> supposed to open the file as before and rely on the manager to act
>> transparently? This mechanism is strange for a database server.
>> Does it hook file access so that it can find the file and control
>> access to it whenever somebody opens any QBW file on the selected
>> drive?
>
> Hmm. Not here.
>
> Every once in a great while, QB has to be started on our central
> machine then closed (I think it lays down a scent) to get the
> database engine started. This marking survives re-boots.
>
> QB itself is NOT running on the machine where the database resides
> (but the DB engine is).
Then you mean that the DB server utility has to be started sometimes, not
QB, right? Maybe restarting the services would fix it as well, or maybe it
forgot which drive to scan and the drive letter had to be selected again.
I'm learning more about it, no thanks to the paucity of technical
documentation. Now I know that 2007 has 2 services that (should) run
automatically, but 2006 did not, and needed the utility running all the time
instead.
FYI services run before you log on, and can be seen in control panel,
administrative tools, services.
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