Cannot get Quickbooks to network correctly.

[dalearyous]

the network setup is pretty simple. there are two machines, one vista and one xp. the xp machine is going to host the quickbooks account file. i have tried a bunch of things and keep running into random errors everywhere. here is what i need:

i need the xp machine to host the quickbooks account file. the file is going to be located on an external drive. now i placed the quickbooks backup file on the drive, restored it on the xp machine and got that setup and running fine. i then went to vista machine, mapped the hard drive on the xp machine, and tried restoring quickbooks file from that. it goes through the whole thing and then asks for the password for the account. it then errors saying quickbooks cannot open that file.

is there a guide anywhere on how to get this to work? using quickbooks 2008 pro. driving me insane.

i ran across something on the internet saying i had to setup the machines to using multi user setup and it produced the same errors. on the vista machine, eventually i started running into this: "adaptive server anywhere database engine has stopped working"

 

[skyking]

You don't want to restore the company file again. You want to select "open" and then browse to the .QBW file location on the other computer.

 

[dalearyous]

yeah i finally figured that out. quick question though, is it possible to run quickbooks simultaneously on both machines?

ok from what i can gather this is the solution, on the host machine go to file, utilities, host multi user access. that makes it act as the quickbooks datafile server. then i go on the other machine and like you said just open the file. if i want to work simultaneously i will have to put the main machine into multi-user mode. correct?

 

[skyking]

yes, you have it. If you want to do certain things with the file, you have to get the other user to log off so you can work on the file in "single user mode".