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Quickbooks Point of Sale version 10 Win7 Network issue

I have a new network of 2 workstations, both with fresh installs of Windows 7 Pro and fresh install of Quickbooks Point of Sale v.10.

The Win 7 QB "server" can browse the Win 7 QB "Client" computer just fine, but when i try to reverse that and have the client computer browse the server computer it is denied access. I have tried SO much I need to know if anyone else has had any issues.

o_b_c

ASKER

What have I tried?
1) set up the same username and password on both PC's
2) Allowed Blank passwords, I tried this with both a password and blank password.
3) Enabled share with and without the password option
4) I have disabled all of the firewall settings I can find.
5) perhaps more that I cannot recall at this moment.

John

First test: Can you map the folder holding the QuickBooks ledger from the other machine? You need to be able to do this before QB will work.

From the user machine, open a command prompt and type NET USE Z:\\servermachine\QBfolder . What answer do you get?

... Thinkpads_User

o_b_c

ASKER

Which folder on the server would considered the "QBfolder"

John

The folder on the server where the company.QBW, company.ND and company.TLG files are located.

Open QuickBooks and your ledger. When open, press Ctrl-1. A product information window appears and mid-screen you can see the location of the ledger.

... Thinkpads_User

o_b_c

ASKER

I can map the drive and view the contents via cammand prompt, but not via Windows Explorer.
Actually I can view the content via command prompt with admin rights, but not with user rights.
If launch QB POS with admin rights I still cannot open the db.

o_b_c

ASKER

I did another uninstall/reinstall and it is still not working.
Another piece of information... when I do launch QBPOS on the client PC the app hangs and I have to kill it in Task Manger and send a report off to MS.

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o_b_c

ASKER

So I went back and verified all of the settings that you suggested but it still didn't work. So I tried to RDP from one PC to the other and it gave me some grief about not being on the same domain, which was weird since I am on a workgroup and not a domain. So I went and changed the workgroup name on both PC's to something other than "WORKGROUP" and that seemed to essentially fix most of the network troubles I was seeing. But QB-POS still didn't work.
I tried the "Now to QuickBooks" instructions that you gave me but they were not applicable to the version of software that I am running since there was not a FILE option, nor a H M-U A choice under Utilities.
So I punted and called QB support, unfortunately I was not able to sit and watch what they did, they said that there was still something wrong, they said that they tweaked the windows firewall and antivirus (which both of them were already disabled) but whatever they did it is now up and running.

John

Thank you, and thanks for the update. I am glad you have it working. ... Thinkpads_User

o_b_c

ASKER

Thanks for the ideas and for sticking with me!