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Access denied across network

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?

TIA,

Jason

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Jason
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You can try:

  1. Check to make sure Norton or Windows Firewall (whatever firewall you're using) isn't blocking incoming requests from the ME machine).

  1. Move the files to the ME machine & test them. If they work then see if you can access them at that location from the XP machine.

-- Tara

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scfundogs

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?

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Golden California Girls

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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klunk

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