Thanks, Tom. A lot of this is too technical for me -- I'm an accountant, mainly, but I'll pass it on to the tech person at the remote host.

Am I right in that, bottom line, this means:

(1) They will have to do a separate install for each of the clients whose data my customer (the accounting firm) wants to access via QODBC? Meanwhile, my customer also installs the driver (by the way, which version do we purchase?).

(2) My customer can have a single Access application with an ODBC link to various Quickbooks tables, and it will automatically refer to the data for whichever customer account they are currently accessing on the terminal server? i.e. I don't have to create separate Access table links for each of them.

Thanks.    -- mark

Bottom line....

QODBC is licensed to each computer. A license is required for each computer QODBC is installed on. In the case of the QODBC Remote connector and two customers, you would need three licenses. To use the QODBC Remote Connector you need the DeskTop Edition. Read only if you just want to read data out of QuickBooks or Read / Write if you want to read data both out and into QuickBooks.

You will need to setup a different MS Access mdb or accdb for each customer.

I'm assuming that we're just running QODBC on two computers: the server of the remote host and my customer. The actual nonprofit (the client of my customer) uses the same installation of Quickbooks, but would have no need for the driver.

In that case, are we talking about purchasing two licenses?

I was disappointed by the news that separate Access table links would be required for each of the nonprofits who have an installation of Quickbooks on the remote host. I thought somehow QODBC always pointed to the tables of whatever Quickbooks was looking at currently. Is it because once Access links to it, it actually specifies a physical location on the remote server that it refers to subsequently?

Anyway, I appreciate your assistance and quick replies.

--mark